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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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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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Entrepreneurship and innovation in second tier regions

Mayer, Heike - 2011

as knowledge-based economies, how they leveraged entrepreneurship and innovation, and ultimately how they employed public … the fields of entrepreneurship, economic geography and economic development planning. Entrepreneurship researchers will …

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The life cycle of new ventures : emergence, newness and growth

Brush, Candida G. (ed.); Kolvereid, Lars (ed.); … - 2010

The contributors to this book provide a cross-national comparison of venture emergence, newness and growth. Their chapters examine the influences of cultural, social and economic factors on venture development, compare the approaches of entrepreneurs who move from idea to emerging organization,...

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Business creation : ten factors for entrepreneurial success

Reynolds, Paul Davidson - 2018

Business creation, or entrepreneurship, is a major source of national economic growth and adaptation as well as an …

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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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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance

Folkeringa, Mickey; Meijaard, Joris; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...

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Annals of entrepreneurship education and pedagogy - 2016

Morris, Michael H.; Liguori, Eric - United States Association for Small Business and … - 2016

perspectives -- 1. What I've learned about teaching entrepreneurship: perspectives of five master educators / Jerome S. Engel …, Heidi M. Neck, Minet Schindehutte, Ray Smilor, and Bill Rossi -- 2. What entrepreneurship educators don't understand about … creativity and how to teach it / Jeff Stamp -- 3. Does entrepreneurship education change minds?: a multinational analysis of …

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SME performance : separating myth from reality

Watson, John - 2010

The performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has been a subject of continual interest to both researchers and practitioners. This enlightening book investigates the pitfalls which have affected the assessment of SME performance in much of the past research

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