Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation systems
Subtitle: evidence from Europe
By: edited by Franco Malerba
Series: Routledge studies in global competition -- 48; Studies in global competition -- v. 48.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780415557917; 9780203857403
Description: This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives. Firstly, it links entrepreneurship to innovation and to the generation, transformation and use of knowledge. Secondly, it inserts entrepreneurship in innovation systems of various types- national, sectoral and local. Thirdly, it views entrepreneurship not as a single event but as a process that evolves in time, from the pre-entry experience, to the entrepreneurial act, to the evolution of the entrepreneur and the new company. With chapters from a range of international contributors, the book answers questions such as; what are the main dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship? What are the factors affecting its emergence, evolution and performance? How important is knowledge intensive entrepreneurship for European growth and competitiveness? Is the situation of Central and Eastern Europe, engaged in a process of major economic and institutional transformation, similar or different from the one of Western Europe?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.