The interesting relationship between entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness has been a major focus of academics, university managers, and policy makers during the past decades — in particular the role of institutions in the establishment of political, social, and economic rules....

What role can entrepreneurship play in a European economy that is more and more open to the rest of the world? In this European construction, what is the place of the countries and economies that have only recently converted to a free market economy? It is these questions, among others, that...

The innovative tendencies of engineers have been wellstudied; however, the entrepreneurial orientation of engineers has beenoverlooked in the literature. Engineers significantly impact upon technologicalinnovation, which significantly influences a nation's economy. Thus, thepurpose of this study...

A model of entrepreneurial and innovative European engineers and their interaction with the environment through networks and cooperation is developed using examples from France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Among the literature, it has been found that French engineers were more interested in...