Robin De Cock

• Professor (Associate) at Antwerp Management School

This article distinguishes two types of technology ventures: market anchored and technology anchored. These ventures need to conduct effective technological or market search, the identification and evaluation of alternative technologies or markets, respectively, and form a viable technology–market combination. These types of search are fostered by...

While ample research has demonstrated that venture founders’ international experience affects their decision to internationalize, it is unclear how this experience affects the actual internationalization process of ventures that move abroad. We use a multiple case study approach to collect data on founders’ international experiences and cognitive b...

The entrepreneurial journey is often experienced as an emotional rollercoaster, but we know very little about how entrepreneurs can ride it most effectively to increase their ventures' chances of survival. We investigate how entrepreneurs' habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression – two well-established types of emotion regul...

Most growth‐oriented ventures make extensive use of venture experimentation, popularized by the lean start‐up method (LSM), yet we know very little about the boundary conditions under which this method can be successful. Using a longitudinal, multiple‐case study method, we investigate how growth‐oriented ventures can apply the LSM to achieve early...

Most growth-oriented ventures make extensive use of venture experimentation, popularized by the lean start-up method (LSM), yet we know very little about the boundary conditions under which this method can be successful. Using a longitudinal, multiple-case study method, we investigate how growth-oriented ventures can apply the LSM to achieve early...

Research on SMEs’ entry modes remains limited and is spread across various, often disconnected research fields using a broad variety of theories, sample characteristics, and methods. This makes it challenging for researchers to identify interesting research opportunities. Our study investigates the current state of the SME entry mode literature by...

This article identifies two venture types based on the type of opportunity that forms the basis for venture creation. Market pull ventures start from an un/underserved market need and identify a technological solution that can satisfy the poorly met need, while tech push ventures start with a technology at hand and seek a market to apply it to. The...

Biotechnology is referred to as one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century. It has the potential to offer solutions for a number of health and resource-based problems the world is facing, such as unmet medical needs and fossil fuel dependency. Considerable effort and investment has been expended in recent years to try and improve the...

The dynamic capability literature has argued that dynamic capabilities are of most importance to companies that face dynamic environments. New ventures in nascent markets are in such a situation. They need to develop dynamic capabilities to survive. However, the literature remains silent when it comes to the boundary conditions under which these dy...

Despite the attention given to venture capital (VC) and venture capital fund performance over the past decades, our understanding of what drives VC fund performance remains limited. This is mainly caused by a lack of data on VC fund performance, and the fact that, by consequence, mainly indirect measures have been used to assess it, including the n...

Despite the consensus about the role, which both substantive and dynamic capabilities play to explain firm performance in different environments, much less research has been undertaken on how these capabilities are formed (Zahra et al., 2006). Recent work indicates that capabilities result from different ways of bundling resources and argue that ma...

In technology intensive industries, previous research has shown that technological resources play a key role in the success of firms (e.g. Zahra, 1996). Technological resources differ in degree of ‘tacitness’ (Saviotti, 1998) and degree of ‘complexity’ (Marsili, 2002). We extend previous research by arguing that the influence of tacitness and compl...