CiNii Books - Entrepreneurship and growth in local, regional and national economies

This state-of-the-art book provides a window on contemporary European entrepreneurship and small business research. The papers selected demonstrate the applied nature of entrepreneurship research as well as the various contributions that entrepreneurship can make to local, regional and national development. Written by international experts, the book reveals the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship in terms of substantive content and the methodologies employed. With both quantitative and qualitative approaches well represented, Entrepreneurship and Growth in Local, Regional and National Economies covers topics such as regional perspectives on entrepreneurship, new venture creation and growth, business exits, knowledge-based entrepreneurship and social inclusion. Furnishing the reader with rich and leading entrepreneurship research, this book will be invaluable for entrepreneurship and small business researchers as well as postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of entrepreneurship. Policy makers will also find much of great interest to them.

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Contents: Foreword Friederike Welter PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction David Smallbone, Hans Landstroem and Dylan Jones-Evans PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2. Regional Innovation, Collective Entrepreneurship and Green Clusters Philip Cooke 3. Determinants of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity in European Regions: Distinguishing Low and High Ambition Entrepreneurship Niels Bosma and Veronique Schutjens PART III: NEW VENTURE CREATION AND GROWTH 4. Can New Ventures Develop Pioneer Behaviour in Industries with Unfavourable Conditions? The Role of Capabilities Pedro M. Garcia-Villaverde and Maria J. Ruiz-Ortega 5. Switching from Paid Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Effect on Individuals' Earnings Miguel Torres Preto, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima 6. The Financial Requirements of Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Colm O'Gorman 7. An Examination of the Link between Growth Attitudes and Realized Growth Anders Isaksson and Vladimir Vanyushyn PART IV: BUSINESS EXITS 8. Becoming an Ex-entrepreneur: Firm Performance and the Sell-out or Dissolution Decision A. Miguel Amaral, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima 9. The Entrepreneur in 'Risk Society': The Personal Consequences of Business Failure Colin Mason, Sara Carter and Stephen Tagg PART V: KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP 10. The Creation of Higher Education Institutions and Firm Entry: A Policy Evaluation Joana Mendonca, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima 11. Cooperation with Universities and Research Institutions for Corporate Entrepreneurship Activities: The Influence of the Technology Intensity of the Environment Angela Gonzalez-Moreno and Francisco J. Saez-Martinez 12. ICT-Related Small Firms with Different Collaborative Network Structures: Different Species or Variations on a Theme? Vinit Parida and Mats Westerberg PART VI: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL INCLUSION 13. Does Enterprise Discourse Have the Power to Enable or Disable Deprived Communities? Carole Howorth, Caroline Parkinson and Alan Southern 14. Transnationalism, Mixed Embeddedness and Somali Entrepreneurs in Leicester Trevor Jones, Monder Ram and Nicholas Theodorakopoulos 15. The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Potential in Transition Environments: A Challenge for Entrepreneurship Theory or a Developmental Perspective? Friederike Welter and David Smallbone Index

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