Entrepreneurship research - discussing today the awareness of tomorrow : YERC 2012, Young Entrepreneurship Research Colloquium, Ilmenau, 20. - 21. Oktober 2012

The first Young Entrepreneurship Research Colloquium (YERC) was held 2012 in Ilmenau. Initiated as a new innovative format, young scientists from all over Germany discussed their research with colleagues and experts from the fields of education, capital investment and real entrepreneurs. The discussion is continued in this volume, according to the idea that the young of today might be the established entrepreneurship researchers of tomorrow. The invited article of Leona Achtenhagen, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, offers a shift from the German to an international perspective and a critical but encouraging reflection of each contribution from a profound entrepreneurship scientists' perspective.