This book examines the complex relationship between corruption and entrepreneurship in countries of varying levels of economic development. The authors explore the ways in which social welfare policies have changed in current economic and political environments as well as key challenges faced by...

This book features latest research insights into the study of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The focus is on understanding its influence on the development of socially and physically defined ‘places’, and how these factors are related with each other. The book argues that regardless of how...

This volume discusses entrepreneurship education in Europe on the basis of in-depth case studies of related activities at twenty higher education institutions. Based on a model of entrepreneurship education, the analysis addresses curricular and extra-curricular teaching, as well as the...

This volume of selected articles was released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization. National security, immigration, and the provision of...

This book aims to bring together different contributions highlighting how the recent changes that modify universities’ activities, such as the necessity to internationalize and crucially rely on third party funding, and the new entrepreneurial trajectories stemming from the recent...

Entrepreneurship and growth are central concerns of policy makers around the world. Local Heroes in the Global Village introduces public policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship on a comparative, primarily German-American level. The book contributes to the debate what role public policies...

to Entrepreneurship -- to the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research -- Entrepreneurship: The Past, the Present, the Future -- The Entrepreneurial Process -- Risk and Uncertainty -- Innovation and Technological Change -- Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies -- Opportunity and the Nature...

Opportunity -- to the 2nd Edition of the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research -- Opportunity -- Debates in Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Formation and Implications for the Field of Entrepreneurship -- An Update to the Individual-Opportunity Nexus -- Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity --...

Introduction -- Forget R&D - pay my coach: young innovative companies and their relations with universities -- The Role of Research Orientation for Attracting Competitive Research Funding -- The cooperative strategy of technology transfer offices: A longitudinal study -- Academic...