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4 When Start Ups Shift Network: Notes on Start Up Journey

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Start-ups are often born in some kind of ‘hosting’ environment such as business and university incubators or science technology parks. For decades, this has been considered an important measure of enhancing academic entrepreneurship (Grimaldi, Kenney, Siegel, & Wright, 2011) and the beginning of a start-up’s journey towards becoming a full-grown business. In this chapter, we aim to examine the challenges that start-ups meet when they begin to acquire the shape of a business venture and attempt to develop commercially viable business relationships with customers and suppliers.

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  1. Health Services Research Centre, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway

    Antonella La Rocca

  2. Department of Innovation and Economic Organization, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

    Antonella La Rocca

  3. Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

    Christina Öberg

  4. Department of Innovation and Economic Organization, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

    Thomas Hoholm

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Tech , Trondheim, Norway

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  3. Chalmers University of Technology , Göteborg, Sweden

    Frida Lind

  4. Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

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  5. Lund University , Lund, Sweden

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Rocca, A.L., Öberg, C., Hoholm, T. (2017). 4 When Start Ups Shift Network: Notes on Start Up Journey. In: Aaboen, L., La Rocca, A., Lind, F., Perna, A., Shih, T. (eds) Starting Up in Business Networks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52719-6_5

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