Abstract:

The paper aims to contribute at the debate on disruptive innovation theory by focusing on the knowledge intensive entrepreneurship as key process to address the technological development towards innovation in the market and society. Framed into a neo-schumpeterian stream of research, the paper offers a theoretical contribution at the comprehension of the disruption innovation associated to the diffusion of key enabling technologies as pervasive and knowledge intensive solutions impacting on the current structure of market and society. Furthermore, the study contributes to the debate on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship as driver of the knowledge-economy and core process to address the knowledge advancement on technical domains into valuable innovation. The study offers an original contribution at the contextualization of disruptive innovation theory on those knowledge intensive and pervasive technologies while implications for policy makers are identifiable into the deepen comprehension of the meaning of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship as driver for the competitiveness of regions and national systems.