Il cambiamento tecnologico e le capacità imprenditoriali: il caso del vetro acidato
Journal title ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE
Author/s Andrea Lanza, Mariacarmela Passarelli
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/3
Language Italian Pages 33 P. 63-95 File size 655 KB
DOI 10.3280/POLI2009-003005
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Technology change and entrepreneurial capabilities: evidence from etched glass industry - The aim of the paper is to investigate how a given entrepreneurial firm can substitute the traditional innovation resources (R&D investment, patenting competences and specialized human capital) and what kind of different resources can be deployed in order to achieve a technology change. To point out the role of these particular resources we introduce the concept of dynamic entrepreneurial capabilities, and distinguish it from substantive entrepreneurial capabilities, two concepts which shall underpin our findings. We chose as research setting the Italian glass industry since it has always had a prominent role in defining new technological dominant design for the whole worldwide glass industry. This paper presents a longitudinal study carried out in the Italian etched glass industry. We observed a small Italian firm, Vetromed, for a 7-year period after its decision to implement technology change. Our findings suggest that Vetromed innovated its technology by developing and integrating three dynamic entrepreneurial capabilities, defined as higher order abilities, namely: distributed entrepreneurial insights; entrepreneurial heuristics; entrepreneurial flexibility.
Keywords: dynamic entrepreneurial capabilities, substantive capabilities, technology change
Parole chiave: capacità dinamiche imprenditoriali, capacità imprenditoriali parziali, cambiamento tecnologico
Jel Classification: O30 - O32 - O55
Andrea Lanza, Mariacarmela Passarelli, Il cambiamento tecnologico e le capacità imprenditoriali: il caso del vetro acidato in "ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE " 3/2009, pp 63-95, DOI: 10.3280/POLI2009-003005