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Handbook of research on innovation and entrepreneurship /

Title By: Audretsch, David B [Editor.] | Flack, Oliver [Editor.] | Heblich, Stephan [Editor.] | Lederer, Adam [Editor.]
Material type: BookPublisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2011.Description: xvi, 510 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781848440876; 1848440871Subject(s): Entrepreneurship | Creative ability in business
Summary:
While preparing a different book (a collection of reprints), the editors landed on the idea of asking leading scholars to share their current thoughts on some of the themes. The result is a collection of 30 original contributions from economists and business academics and professionals based in at least a half dozen countries in Europe and North America. Themes addressed include the social desirability of innovation and entrepreneurship (e.g. social good and social evil, the entrepreneurial role); institutions and innovation (industrial policy, financing constraints, microfinance organizations; the geography of innovation (classical and random urban growth models, for example); technology transfer (what scientists think about commercialization activities, universities as research partners); firms and innovation (incentives, knowledge, and need); and the making of the entrepreneur (genetics of entrepreneurship, education). The four editors are affiliated as follows: David B. Audretsch (economic development, Indiana U.); Oliver Falck (economic research, U. of Munich, Germany); Stephan Heblich (economics, U. of Stirling, UK); and Adam Lederer (DIW Berlin, Germany). Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

While preparing a different book (a collection of reprints), the editors landed on the idea of asking leading scholars to share their current thoughts on some of the themes. The result is a collection of 30 original contributions from economists and business academics and professionals based in at least a half dozen countries in Europe and North America. Themes addressed include the social desirability of innovation and entrepreneurship (e.g. social good and social evil, the entrepreneurial role); institutions and innovation (industrial policy, financing constraints, microfinance organizations; the geography of innovation (classical and random urban growth models, for example); technology transfer (what scientists think about commercialization activities, universities as research partners); firms and innovation (incentives, knowledge, and need); and the making of the entrepreneur (genetics of entrepreneurship, education). The four editors are affiliated as follows: David B. Audretsch (economic development, Indiana U.); Oliver Falck (economic research, U. of Munich, Germany); Stephan Heblich (economics, U. of Stirling, UK); and Adam Lederer (DIW Berlin, Germany). Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com.

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