Esin Yoruk

• PhD(Innovation Management and S&T Policy) MSc(Econ) BSc(Eng) SFHEA
• Associate Professor at Coventry University

This paper is concerned with the dynamics of innovation systems (IS) in developing/emerging economies. It investigates how one core element of an IS – its network of firm-centred knowledge links – changes over time and how that change may be influenced by change in the deepening technological capabilities of firms. It addresses this issue by: 1 exa...

This paper explores the changing role of world regions (North America, EU15, South EU, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Former-USSR, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East) in science from 1981 to 2011. We use bibliometric data extracted from Thomson Reuter’s National Science Indicators (2011) for 21 broad disciplines, and aggregated the...

This study explores configurations for firm-environment alignment of entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation in technology based ventures to explain firm performance. Classifying entrepreneurial opportunities by their source and location as technology driven and market driven, we develop a framework to investigate a multitude of factors in the fir...

This book explores the dual nature of entrepreneurship, revealing how it can either drive economic advancement or perpetuate harm, largely influenced by institutional contexts. Leveraging Baumol’s (1990) framework that differentiates between productive, unproductive, and destructive entrepreneurship, we focus our analysis on emerging markets that s...

About this book The book investigates the intricate world of entrepreneurship, examining its dual nature as a force for constructive societal change as well as a potential source of destructive consequences. To examine these two facets in detail, the book scrutinizes the interplay between individual actions and institutional frameworks, showing how...

This study investigates the complex relationships between market need urgency (MNU), entrepreneurial push and pull insights driven by supply (SDI) and demand (DDI), and opportunity confidence (OC), resulting in new venture creation (NVC) from the perspective of nascent entrepreneur's perceptions in the developing country context. Departing from the...

This paper investigates how inter-organizational learning in networks and global value chains (GVCs) has contributed to resilience in Poland's food processing and clothing industries. The Polish economy has been widely accepted as resilient since Poland's transition from a planned to a market economy. Through drawing on the regional resilience lite...

This special issue in the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development (IJTLID) is dedicated to better understanding the potential for entrepreneurship to generate transformational effects to bring about sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth. Drawing from the rich tradition of research in entrepreneurship an...

This paper focuses on the philosophy of transformational entrepreneurship and explores what role entrepreneurial ecosystems fulfil within that to stimulate environmentally and socially inclusive growth. It first examines the past and current contributions in the entrepreneurship literature. Then, it considers the current debate on the transformativ...

This paper focuses on the philosophy of transformational entrepreneurship and explores what role entrepreneurial ecosystems fulfil within that to stimulate environmentally and socially inclusive growth. It first examines the past and current contributions in the entrepreneurship literature. Then, it considers the current debate on the transformativ...

Business model innovation is crucial to the development of new energy enterprises. Artificial intelligence has received more and more attention, but the extant literature has limited understanding of how artificial intelligence affects the business model innovation of companies. This study is among the first to explore the impacts of artificial int...

This study explores the interdependent effects of internationalisation and sources of internal and external knowledge on the level of innovation. We present possible pathways that small innovative Romanian software product provider firms pursue to reconfigure their resources to be competitive beyond CEE. This product provider segment of the softwar...

From a comparative economics perspective, entrepreneurship is a property of both individuals and, also, countries and their innovation systems. Based on this, the chapter explores the issue of entrepreneurial propensities of different types of capitalist economies. We discuss three analytical approaches which are relevant for exploring the relation...

This paper investigates how low-technology emerging market firms learn in networks during transition to market economy. It argues that while involvement in a variety of network types might enhance firms’ external learning, the ways they learn from their external environment might differ according to network types and characteristics of the inter-or...

The R&D and technology issues of relevance for catching up cannot be understood or conceptualized only within the R&D-based growth model. With this motivation in mind, we have created a composite indicator of innovation capacity and performance of the CEECs, as well as of the EU25, which is meaningful from the perspective of countries lagging behin...

Previous studies have been written the impact of Outward Foreign direct investment (OFDI) on innovation performance is one of the most controversial topics (Li, 2016; Luo, 2011). Studies of the OFDI show that in the process of integration of the national economy, the role of OFDI on innovation development of the host country may have a double chara...

Our main research question is whether firms in emerging markets like CEE have all the attributes of developed entrepreneurial orientation (EO) or whether the specific external constraints and opportunities affect their EO. The picture that emerges from our analysis is sharply different from the dominant ‘individual – opportunity nexus’ as depicted...

Based on theories from entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship literatures, this paper investigates how the fit between micro level entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation and macro level entrepreneurial influence sales and employment growth in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms. A multiple case study analysis contrasts young entrepreneuri...

Pushed by the transition towards the knowledge economy, as well as several other change drivers, an ever-increasing number of knowledge intensive ventures are relying on operational knowledge intensity in order to generate value. Through their interaction with their varied stakeholders—from actors within their supply chains to educational and finan...

This paper discusses why we need a theory and metrics of technology upgrading. It critically reviews existing approaches to technology upgrading, and proposes a theoretically relevant and empirically grounded intermediate conceptual and statistical framework to illustrate the types of challenges facing economies with different levels of income. It...

We explore the issues of measurement of technology upgrading of the economies moving from middle to high income status. In particular, our focus is on the central and eastern European economies (CEE) within the context of sample of 42 economies ranging from lower middle income to upper high income level economies

This paper explores the changing role of world regions (CEE, EU15, South EU, Former USSR, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East) in science base with special reference to EU15 (developed EU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 1981-2011 period based on bibliometric data. The data are extracted from Thomson Reuter’s Nati...

This research investigates the dynamics of firm innovativeness in emerging markets. It explores how firms acquire knowledge externally, in what ways existing knowledge base and intensity of effort components of absorptive capacity contribute to the innovativeness of the firms. It also examines the complementarities arising from the favorable intera...

This research investigates the mutual and diverging factors for successful and less successful innovations in software and manufacturing of machine tools in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We apply univariate and multivariate analyses on 115 indicators by revisiting the seminal SAPPHO project based on the analysis of pairs of innovations and cond...

This paper develops an analytical framework, namely the concept of entrepreneurial propensity of innovation systems by integrating knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) and innovation system (IS) concepts. It first uses a composite index methodology to measure knowledge intensive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities at the nation...

Deliverable Title D 2.2.2 " Innovation system and knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship: United Kingdom " Deliverable Lead: UCL Related Work package: WP 2.2 Author(s): Esin Yoruk, Mila Striukova and Slavo Radosevic (UCL) Dissemination level: Public Due submission date: 31/10/2011 Actual submission: 31/10/2011 Version Draft Project Number 225134 Inst...

This thesis is concerned with analysing the extent that technology transfer contributes to the improvement and development of technological capabilities through learning at the firm level in a developing country context, and the impact of this process on the emergence and changes of key characteristics of innovation systems. Therefore, it investiga...

In the knowledge intensive context, firms’ capacity to integrate external and internal sources of knowledge becomes an important competitive advantage and may distinguish entrepreneurial from conservative firms. This paper explores the proposition that differences in strategic entrepreneurial orientation (EO) across firms may be significantly deter...