. New business early performance : differences between firms started by novice, serial and portfolio entrepreneurs / Gry … Labor Force, 1990-2000 / Frédéric Delmar, Karin Hellerstedt and Karl Wennberg -- 5. Innovation and the characteristics of … sustainability as situated entrepreneurship / Ted Fuller and Lorraine Warren -- 7. Extreme entrepreneurs : challenging the …

"Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa presents a timely and compelling account of African … entrepreneurship, shedding light on the critical part it plays in the continent's economic growth and development. It explores the …, investors, NGOs, and educational institutions in fostering an environment which allows for entrepreneurship to flourish. It also …

innovation and planning. The majority of all businesses throughout the world are small firms, which play a crucial role in the …, postgraduate research students and professional advisors working in the field of small business management and entrepreneurship …

inter alia to management, human resources, marketing and financing. Advanced innovation capabilities related to R&D and … technology set high-performance firms apart from other businesses. Industry-level differences in product lifecycle, production … activity, competitive intensity and the science base all influence the nature of small-firm innovation …

pt. 1. Background -- pt. 2. SME performance -- pt. 3. Comparing the performance of female- and male-controlled SMEs … -- pt. 4. Growth financing for SMEs -- pt. 5. Networking and SME performance -- pt. 6. Conclusions …The performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has been a subject of continual interest to both …

role in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in family businesses, performance of new ventures and entrepreneurial processes …. Performance of new ventures -- pt. 5. Processes and entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship. It focuses on four themes, each of which illustrates a key dimension in the overall theme: entrepreneurs and their …

to entrepreneurship policy / Anders N. Hoffmann -- Government program to encourage innovation by start-ups and SMEs : the … University, US. This unique Handbook provides a solid foundation for essential study in the nascent field of entrepreneurship … nature of entrepreneurship policy research. The first is that entrepreneurship has emerged as a bona fide focus of public …

, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity … processes for research and innovation …

This book explores new frameworks and methods of understanding and analysing innovation. These are set against a … backdrop of 'innovation with care', which is seen as a phenomenon that takes place among many actors with different … perspectives, ideas and cultures that must be carefully woven together in order to achieve the benefits of innovation …