Maurizio Sobrero

TL;DR: In this article, the authors build on social cognitive career theory to examine the relation between entrepreneurial intention and new venture creation (i.e., the entrepreneurial career choice) and model how contextual influences at different levels may favor or inhibit the translation of entrepreneurial intention into new venture creating.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a new role for government in facilitating collaborative R&D, one of discouraging opportunistic behavior, using a transaction cost framework, and identify mechanisms by which the government can help to discourage such behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the knowledge mediating role, as technological "gatekeepers," of focal firms in industrial districts based on a longitudinal dataset of 720 patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) between 1990 and 2003 to firms in the automatic packaging machinery industrial district in Northern Italy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the formulation of entrepreneurial intentions and show that entrepreneurial intention is influenced by psychological characteristics, by individual skills, and by environmental influences, as well as individual characteristics and contextual variables on the intention formation process.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the acquaintances of a sample of academic inventors and their paired controls to investigate the contribution of social networks to the generation of inventive ideas in academe, finding no evidence that after patenting inventors isolate or close their networks.