The entrepreneurship research challenge Entrepreneurship is an emerging dynamic and to a considerable extent unpredictable phenomenon. Thus it makes for a challenging research subject. In this book one of the most experienced empiricists in this field has collected some of his most important ideas on how improved conceptualization and research design can make this challenge more manageable pt. 1. Defining and describing the entrepreneurship phenomenon pt. 2. Research. design issues pt. 3. Interpreting and spreading the results