Frontiers in eco entrepreneurship research Entrepreneurial biography : Klaus Reichardt founder managing partner of waterless co. LLC Kathleen Kokosinski Eco entrepreneurship : an empirical perspective based on survey data Marcus Wagner Entrepreneurial biography : Paul Manson president and CEO of sea breeze power corp. Kathleen Kokosinski College student eco entrepreneurship : a social movement perspective Matthew M. Mars Some microeconomics of eco entrepreneurship Matthew J. Kotchen Unlocking the black box of entrepreneurship : Applications for the environment Terry L. Anderson A life cyclebased framework for environmental assessments of eco entrepreneurship Roland Geyer Max DuBuisson Employee eco initiatives : case studies of two eco entrepreneurial companies Nicole DeJonghe Vered Doctori Blass Catherine A. Ramus Introduction Gary D. Libecap. Eco entrepreneurship (the provision of new products processes services with environmental benefits) is not well understood regarding its motives returns products services organization and property rights. However as public concern about the environment rises understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship and the environment is increasingly important. This volume examines the environmental entrepreneur and the role of property rights in encouraging eco entrepreneurship and uses micro economics to assess whether eco entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from more general entrepreneurship Eco entrepreneurship (the provision of new products processes services with environmental benefits) is not well understood regarding its motives returns products services organization and property rights. However as public concern about the environment rises understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship and the environment is increasingly important. This volume examines the environmental entrepreneur and the role of property rights in encouraging eco entrepreneurship and uses micro economics to assess whether eco entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from more general entrepreneurship