Desire and necessity of sound financials is the lullaby that lets an entrepreneur sleep at night. But the funding strategy that they so much require has been overlooked by the literature. More specifically, founder funding ...

Looking back from the past seven years, young entrepreneurs (between 18 and 34 years old) were rather low in Norway compared to other Scandinavian countries with only constitute 9.8% of all entrepreneurs (Alsos et al., ...

The benefits of the open innovation approach, and more specifically – the partnership between corporates and startups, are well covered in the literature by different scholars. Although the establishment of corporate ...

The benefits of the open innovation approach, and more specifically – the partnership between corporates and startups, are well covered in the literature by different scholars. Although the establishment of corporate ...

Background: The topic of firm growth has been garnering considerable attention in recent times, with the emphasis on organic growth and growth by acquisition. To the extent of my knowledge, many of those scholars have ...

Food companies are constantly struggling to remain relevant in a competitive and fast shifting market. To keep producing desirable and successful products they need to constantly monitor the market, understand consumers, ...

Previous studies show that culture can influence intrapreneurship in a corporation. However, there is limited study on specific cultural domains especially in the case of the Norwegian corporations. Uncertainty avoidance ...

Although the construction industry is one of the largest industries, it is being considered as inefficient and static in comparison to other industries, and the common realization holds that there are significant areas to ...

It is generally acknowledged that organizations need to have the ability to innovate in order to sustain a competitive advantage and guarantee sustainable durability for the future (Amabile, 1988; Damanpour & Schneider, ...

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of digital innovation in the periphery from a regional innovation system (RIS) perspective. We have conducted a single case study on the peripheral region ...

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of digital innovation in the periphery from a regional innovation system (RIS) perspective. We have conducted a single case study on the peripheral region ...

Nepal has not yet witnessed a significant number of international new ventures, although the number of start-ups has substantially risen in the country in the past few years. The Nepalese start-up ecosystem is still in a ...

Remote work has seen much popularity in recent years, and there are no indications of this slowing down. This relatively new work-setting opens up a lot of opportunities and benefits; Employers get significant cost savings ...

The desire to better understand entrepreneurial ecosystems and how they develop, combined with the curiosity in understanding the entrepreneurial ecosystems of two regions of great importance for the author: Oslo (Norway) ...

Startup companies often lack financial- and human-capital, making the importance of their social capital, such as networks, greater than that of established businesses. There is an abundance of literature dedicated to the ...

Digital transformation through digital technologies has captured the fancy of majority of the industries globally. Digitally matured organisations have been doing extremely well, if stock markets were used as a measure and ...

The extent to which entrepreneurship can affect income inequality have become a recent topic of debates among policymakers and economist. Some believe entrepreneurship is a source of enhanced income mobility, while others ...

De siste årene har det vært et økt fokus på å inkludere innovasjon og/eller entreprenørskap i utdannelsen. Vi har i dette studiet undersøkt hva masterprogrammet Innovasjon og Entreprenørskap gir av kunnskap, og hvordan ...

De siste årene har det vært et økt fokus på å inkludere innovasjon og/eller entreprenørskap i utdannelsen. Vi har i dette studiet undersøkt hva masterprogrammet Innovasjon og Entreprenørskap gir av kunnskap, og hvordan ...

In recent decades there has been a rise in the number of women who become self-employed, especially true for female necessity driven entrepreneurial activities in developing countries. This phenomenon requires in-depth ...

Environmental uncertainty is a multi-dimensional construct composed of state, effect and response uncertainty. An individual experience uncertainty, if he/she does not feel confident on predicting the organization’s ...

Blockchain based technologies and companies have been on the rise the last decade with much hype surrounding this topic. It has been promoted as a revolutionary technology that is capable of more than just sending and ...

This master thesis is a comparative case study of the salmon industry path in the Bergen region and the emerging cell-based seafood industry. Cell-based seafood is an industry that is utilizing biotechnology to produce ...

Fallende oljepriser har medført et behov for økonomisk restrukturering av Vestlandet (Rogaland, Hordaland og Sogn og Fjordane). Det innebærer at virksomheter må finne markeder innenfor andre bransjer hvor de kan selge sine ...

Fallende oljepriser har medført et behov for økonomisk restrukturering av Vestlandet (Rogaland, Hordaland og Sogn og Fjordane). Det innebærer at virksomheter må finne markeder innenfor andre bransjer hvor de kan selge sine ...

I denne oppgaven undersøker vi hvilke faktorer sosiale entreprenører tar hensyn til når de skal etablere og utvikle sine virksomheter. Sosiale entreprenører benytter seg av mange ulike organisasjonsformer, noe som er med ...

Although research in business angels investment process is increasingly catching the attention of scholars, how business angels establish the value of start-ups is relatively unexplored. Furthermore literature on business ...

Following the Oil price downturn in 2014, a surge of digital innovation initiatives have surfaced which promise to decrease operational costs to reflect a new, low margin, environment. Equinor – firmly on board with the ...

Strategic partnership between incumbents (corporation) and start-ups are receiving increased attention from several prospects. Incumbents possess resources that start-ups aspire for, while start-ups have agility and novel ...

How can it be that entrepreneurial activity changes in different regions? The small island municipality Austevoll have many entrepreneurs and a high level of entrepreneurial activity. From growing up there, I have always ...

Innovation capacity depends on the effective building and transfer of knowledge, commonly referred to as the firms' innovation mode. In this study I join the debate on what constitutes the most effective innovation mode, ...

Norge surfer på en gründerbølge. Aldri før har flere nordmenn hatt et ønske om å satse på egenhånd, og aldri før har det vært bedre tilrettelagt for samarbeid med aktører i privat og offentlig sektor. Denne oppgaven studerer ...

The uncertainty is of great significance to the entrepreneurship. The existence of the contradictory views about the nature of uncertainty makes it an ambiguous construct in the entrepreneurship. The presence of uncertainty ...

Som følge av klimaendringene har flere land i verden økt sin produksjon av fornybar energi de siste årene. Ny fornybar energi slik som sol- og vindkraft er ledende. I Norge er fremdeles solenergi lite utbredt sammenlignet ...

Denne masteroppgaven ser på endring av kompetansekrav i Industri 4.0. For å utforske problemstillingen gjøres en litteraturstudie om kompetanse i Industri 4.0. For å illustrere funnene i litteraturstudiet gjøres en komparativt ...

The financial industry has been facing heavy regulatory changes since the global financial crisis in 2008. Several kinds of rules have been mandated across the financial industry in the European Union Area (EEA). Among the ...

Digitalisering har en økende påvirkning på vår arbeidshverdag. For olje og gas industrien påvirker den Helse, Miljø og Sikkerhet (HMS) for arbeiderne ved å skape et tryggere arbeidsmiljø. Tilstandsbasert vedlikehold kom ...

Blockchain er en distribuert databaseteknologi som muliggjør digitalt eierskap og verditransaksjoner gjennom å tilrettelegge for tillit mellom brukerne. I denne studien har vi undersøkt etablerte virksomheters arbeid med ...

Poverty eradication and realizing sustainability are the most important global issues, what made the United Nations implements the 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Due to the UN’s agenda creation, ...

Blockchain er en distribuert databaseteknologi som muliggjør digitalt eierskap og verditransaksjoner gjennom å tilrettelegge for tillit mellom brukerne. I denne studien har vi undersøkt etablerte virksomheters arbeid med ...

Effectuation and Causation have been intriguing theories which have assisted in understanding entrepreneurs. However, due to the rapid technological advances in recent years, this has spurred an increase in technology ...

Denne studien ser på hva som kjennetegner innovasjonsmodellene til nyetablerte bedrifter innenfor helsesektoren. Studien skiller mellom teknologidrevet innovasjon, markedsdrevet innovasjon og den interaktive innovasjonsmodellen. ...

Purpose - This thesis aims to study how business incubators support new ventures and how they help their tenants handle the liability of newness and smallness. Specific metrics have chosen to examine the external and ...

Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke fenomenet ”Word of mouth” (WOM), som handler om kommunikasjonsprosessen der et budskap spres muntlig fra en person til en annen. Hensikten er å undersøke hva som motiverer til, og ...

Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke fenomenet ”Word of mouth” (WOM), som handler om kommunikasjonsprosessen der et budskap spres muntlig fra en person til en annen. Hensikten er å undersøke hva som motiverer til, og ...

Does the entrepreneur’s personal behavior play a major role when attracting angel investment? To answer this question, the opinions and experiences of two angel investors, a business developer for an angel investor network ...

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is an institutionalised process, where a broad range of employees and managers act as entrepreneurs in the innovation process. CE needs to be nurtured and managed as a strategic, deliberate ...

Denne oppgaven studerer hvilke faktorer som påvirker vekst og innovasjon ved norske håndverksbryggerier. Studien har tatt utgangspunkt i faktorene kunnskap, nettverk og innovasjonsevne, og hvordan disse har sammenheng med ...

I statsbudsjettet 2017 legger regjeringen til rette for bruk av velferdsteknologi og mobil helseteknologi. Studien ser på hvordan utviklingen av velferdsteknologi gjennomføres i helse- og omsorgsbransjen. Oppgaven fokuserer ...