Despite a wealth of efforts that examine separately the role entrepreneurs and universities play in economic development, no systematic effort has been made to examine the role universities play in promoting economic development through entrepreneurship. This book fills that gap, focusing on...

Investigates the extent to which the reasons for and the environmental influences on business formation are conditional on an entrepreneur's gender and nationality. Data were collected from venture initiators in Great Britain, Norway, and New Zealand and consist of responses to 23 questions in...