Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development : Labor Networks, Knowledge Flows, and Industry Growth

Part I: Entrepreneurship.- 1 Entrepreneurship Capital and Regional Development -- 2 Career Paths of Academic Entrepreneurs and University Spin-off Growth -- 3 The Role of Employee’s Human Capital and the Work Environment on the Creation of Organizational Spin-offs -- 4 How far do hiring parent firm workers enter the performance strategy of spin-off and start-up in their entrepreneurial stage?.- 5 Early-stage Businesses, Resource Inheritance and Co-workers Hiring -- Part II: Human Capital -- 6 Economic Performance of Portuguese Academic Spin-Offs -- 7 Recruitment processes and capability development in academic spin-offs. An exploratory work -- 8 Coopetition and Open Innovation -- 9 Does Human Capital Impact differently the Opportunity Perception and the Business Creation? -- 10 The influence of creativity on entrepreneurship -- Part III: Regional Development -- 11 Cluster(ing) Policies in Turkey -- 12 Are small firms more dependent on the local environment than larger firms? -- 13 Organizational Heritage and Entrepreneurship -- 14 High-Growth Firms -- 15 Regional Industrial Policy in Norway and Spain -- 16 Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, and Growth in the Fast Growing Firms in Portugal