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Entrepreneurship, sustainable growth and performance : frontiers in European entrepreneurship research

Landström, Hans (contributor) - Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business … - 2008

entrepreneurship. It focuses on four themes, each of which illustrates a key dimension in the overall theme: entrepreneurs and their … role in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in family businesses, performance of new ventures and entrepreneurial processes …pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Entrepreneurs and their role -- pt. 3. Entrepreneurship in family firms -- pt. 4 …

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Narratives of enterprise : crafting entrepreneurial self-identity in a small firm

Down, Simon - 2006

Simon Down's timely ethnographic study takes a philosophically reflective and empirically detailed look at the way in which enterprising people use narrative resources to construct their identity as entrepreneurs. The book draws on a wide range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic...

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Successful entrepreneurship : confronting economic theory with empirical practice

Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

Mirjam van Praag compares and contrasts the economic theory of entrepreneurship with determinants of successful … entrepreneurship derived from empirical evidence, in an attempt to discover what makes for an accomplished entrepreneur. The author …'s state-of-the-art historical, theoretical and empirical research on successful entrepreneurship--all from an explicit …

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The entrepreneur : an economic theory

Casson, Mark - 2003 - 2nd ed

Economics of International Business sets out a new agenda for international business research. Mark Casson asserts that it is time to move the subject on from sterile debates about transaction cost economies and resource-based theories of the firm. Instead of focusing on the individual firm, the...

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Global entrepreneurship, institutions and incentives : the Mason years

Ács, Zoltán J. - 2015

particular intellectual focus on knowledge spillover entrepreneurship. It studies the evolution of global entrepreneurship and … author offers a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship as a new way to help understand the entrepreneurial ecosystem …. For those that create wealth only for themselves the author develops a theory of destructive entrepreneurship that …

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Mapping national innovation ecosystems : foundations for policy consensus

Frenkel, Amnon - 2014

'Frenkel and Maital provide a ground-breaking deeply-delving study of innovation systems, offering guidance for decision-making practitioners that links theory with case-based learning opportunities.'--Michael Radnor, Chairman and co-founder, Global Advanced Technology Innovation Consortium...

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Economic growth and change : national and regional patterns of convergence and divergence

Pigliaru, Francesco (contributor); Adams, John (contributor) - 1999

The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation's policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global, national and regional patterns of growth from a...

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Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness : new data on the use of patents by universities, small firms, and individual inventors

Kingston, William - 2006

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...

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Innovation and institutions : a multidisciplinary review of the study of innovation systems

Waarden, Frans van (contributor); Casper, Steven (contributor) - 2005

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully...

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State of Literature on Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities

Acs, Zoltán J.; Kallas, Kadri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

, entrepreneurship and low income (LI) communities, needs to be put into perspective and that is not simple. So, let us start with a … simpler question: Does entrepreneurship impact communities in general, and, if so, how?.. …

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