. 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 …

While creativity and entrepreneurship may appear to be unlikely allies, they are increasingly intersecting to produce … economic and social value in new and exciting ways. This groundbreaking volume examines how creativity and entrepreneurship can … sustainable global development. -- The essays in this volume discuss the ways in which creativity and entrepreneurship challenge …

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 …