Handbook of research on innovation and entrepreneurship Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth knowledge production and spillovers technology transfer the organization of the firm industrial policy financing small firms and start ups and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur pt. 1. The social desirability of innovation and entrepreneurship pt. 2. Institutions innovation and entrepreneurship pt. 3. Knowledge knowledge spillovers the geography of innovation and entrepreneurship and growth pt. 4. Technology transfer innovation and entrepreneurship pt. 5. Firms and innovation pt. 6. The making of the entrepreneur.