Entrepreneurial Attitudes as Drivers of Managers’ Boundary‐Spanning Knowledge Ties in the Context of High‐Tech ClustersFootnote^*

* All authors contributed equally. We thank the editor and anonymous JSBM referees for their helpful suggestions.

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