Why do some people start business and others do not? Is entrepreneurship a natural quality or can it be taught? Do entrepreneurs think differently from others? While there is a great deal of literature exploring the dynamics of new firm creation, policies to promote innovation and technology...

A History of Entreprenership and Small Business Research -- The Roots of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research -- The Emergence of an Academic Field -- The International Picture -- Pioneers—the Individuals who Created the Field -- Pioneers — Micro-level Analysis -- David Birch --...

The importance of entrepreneurship for achieving economic growth in contemporary economies is widely recognized, both by policy makers and economists. However, empirical evidence linking entrepreneurship to economic growth is scarce. Empirical Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth...

Discussing the economics of entrepreneurship, this book views that it should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this...

What is Entrepreneurship? -- Entrepreneurship as Research Domain -- This Thing Called “Theory” -- General Design Issues -- Sampling Issues -- Operationalization Issues -- Special Topic: Preparing a “Secondary” Data Set -- Special Topic: Job Creation as the Dependent Variable -- Special...