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In the context of this research work, we committed a reflection on the contribution of the contextual Intelligence (CI) and Knowledge Management (KM) in the survival of some start-ups housed to an Academic and Scientific Incubator (ASI) of the National School of Engineers (ENISO) at the University of Sousse in Tunisia). The study KM in the context of entrepreneurship: in particular, how entrepreneurs utilize and create knowledge, and build on knowledge as a core competency. The starting point of this reflection is the vulnerability of start-ups in their launch phase from which ensues the question of research relative to the capacity of the contextual intelligence to favor the survival of these young companies. In this paper, we used the investigation made in our master’s thesis which mobilized a qualitative method coherent with the exploratory character of the study. The results allowed noticing that the practice of contextual intelligence by the incubated start-ups seems, in the light of this first result, to have a mattering weight compared with the conditions of incubation and to the intrinsic factors of survival of the start-up.
This exploration of the causes of failure of some start-ups incubated in an ASI allowed verifying the importance of KM in this context. It especially allowed bringing out two factors for avoiding failure: the cohesion between the team members and their ability to co-create value and the perseverance and the obstinacy of the entrepreneur. We highlight that, at the micro-level (IAS), start-up entrepreneurs are floundering with too much irrelevant and timely less information. Few tools and skills are available to deal with information effectively and convert them into knowledge. Through the SECI model of Nonaka and Takeuchi (1994), we try to explore the actual reasons for the failure of some incubated start-ups and verify the proposition of the attribution of this failure to the lack of KM and co-creation of value.
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Ayari, Z., Kamoun Chouk, S. (2021). The Deficit’s Threat of Contextual Intelligence and KM in the Coaching Process of an Academic and Scientific Incubator for the Survival of Start-Ups. In: Uden, L., Ting, IH., Wang, K. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations. KMO 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81635-3_15
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