%0 Conference Paper %A Hughes, Mathew %A Hughes, Paul %A Morgan, Robert E. %A Hodgkinson, Ian %D 2015 %T Organizing strategic entrepreneurship to enable product innovation in new and young technology-based firms %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Organizing_strategic_entrepreneurship_to_enable_product_innovation_in_new_and_young_technology-based_firms/9499145 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/17125871 %K untagged %K Business and Management not elsewhere classified %X We examine how strategic entrepreneurship affects explorative and exploitative product innovation and how their synthesis as innovation ambidexterity affects firm performance. We find that opportunity-seeking through entrepreneurial orientation positively affects both explorative and exploitative innovation, but advantage-seeking through sourcing and managing relational resources show differential effects on innovation activity. Those that achieve innovation ambidexterity experience superior firm performance. Our work contributes a first test of strategic entrepreneurship as it applies to product innovation management in new and young technology-based firms, and offers a model reconciling how opposing constructs contained in strategic entrepreneurship and innovation theory can cohabitate in firms. %I Loughborough University