Although economic globalization has transformed contemporary conceptions of space, location still matters enormously for both individual entrepreneurs seeking to develop a sustainable business and policy makers looking to foster entrepreneurship within a particular city or region. In making the...

This paper investigates the development of an open innovation (OI) ecosystem in Israel by analyzing the evolution of OI activities, processes, functions, and practices in the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem from 1993 to 2022. Our findings show a movement from internal patterns of innovation...

This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students etc. Also the impact of the financial crisis...

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship predicts that entrepreneurial activity is greater in regions with more knowledge conditional on the commercialization efficiency of incumbents, which limits entrepreneurial discovery. We extend the theory to contend that localized competition...

Purpose – Schumpeter claimed the entrepreneur to be instrumental for creative destruction and industrial dynamics. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to investigate if entry of new firms...

The digital industries cluster known as Silicon Roundabout has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Rebranded Tech City, it is the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policy makers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such cluster...

This paper critically examines the role of trust and government agency in the creation of artificial industrial districts by means of 'instructing' clusters of companies in specific geographic areas to form entrepreneurial networks in order to obtain a public subsidy. The paper is based on a...

Crowdfunding (CF), a method of raising small amounts of money on the Internet for development of new products and services, as well as solutions to regional development, was introduced in Japan some time ago. Expectations have remained high especially for reward-based CF (in which the payer...

There is a growing scholarly and political consensus about the potential of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) to further sustainability by fostering sustainable start-ups. However, little is known about how the constituents of EEs as institutional framework for entrepreneurship affect the success...

In the theoretical part of our paper focused on a) The role of the Knowledge / Universities as a leader of Technological change ? Knowledge transfer dynamics and its influence on Regional Development, b) the Entrepreneurship education: The role of the Entrepreneurial University, c) Knowledge...