JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Volume 27 Number 7–8 September 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE: ONE STEP BEYOND? TOWARDS A PROCESS VIEW OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP GUEST EDITORS: WADID LAMINE, ALAIN FAYOLLE, SARAH JACK AND DIDIER CHABAUD CONTENTS Editorial One step beyond? Towards a process view of social networks in entrepreneurship Wadid Lamine, Sarah Jack, Alain Fayolle and Didier Chabaud 413 Articles The transformation of network ties to develop entrepreneurial competencies for university spin-offs Einar Rasmussen, Simon Mosey and Mike Wright 430 Show me your network and I’ll tell you who you are: social competence and social capital of early-stage entrepreneurs Thomas Lans, Vincent Blok and Judith Gulikers 458 Network evolution and the spatiotemporal dynamics of knowledge sourcing Robert Huggins, Hiro Izushi, Daniel Prokop and Piers Thompson 474 Formal entrepreneurial networks as communities of practice: a longitudinal case study Vincent Lefebvre, Miruna Radu Lefebvre and Eric Simon 500