Cross-Border Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Europe’s Border Regions

Edited by the late David Smallbone, formerly Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University, UK, Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany and Mirela Xheneti, Professor, Strategy and Marketing Department, University of Sussex Business School, UK

• Contents:1. Entrepreneurship in Europe’s Border RegionsDavid Smallbone, Friederike Welter and Mirela XhenetiPART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES2. Consequences of EU Enlargement for Economic Development in Border RegionsUrve Venesaar and Merle Pihlak3. Trust, Learning and Cross-border EntrepreneurshipFriederike Welter, Nadezhda Alex and Susanne KolbPART II: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES FROM THE EU4. Cross-border Cooperation Within an Enlarged Europe: Görlitz–ZgorzelecAnna Rogut and Friederike Welter5. Cross-border Cooperation in the Bulgaria–Greece–FYR of Macedonia TriangleLois Labrianidis, Kiril Todorov, Georgios Agelopoulos, Efi Voutira, Kostadin Kolarov and Nikos VogiatzisPART III: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES FROM THE NIS6. EU Enlargement and SME Development in Moldovan Border RegionsElena Aculai and Adela Bulgac7. Cross-border Cooperation and Innovation in SMEs in Western Ukraine Nina Isakova, Vitalii Gryga and Olha Krasovska8. Cross-border Entrepreneurial Cooperation at the Household Level: Belarus and EU CountriesAnton Slonimski, Anna Pobol, Olga Linchevskaya and Marina SlonimskaPART IV: POLICY PERSPECTIVES9. Cluster Development and Cluster Policies in EU Border RegionsPeter Zashev10. Governance Structures and Practices in Cross-border Cooperation: Similarities and Differences between Polish RegionsAnna Rogut and Bogdan Piasecki11. Public Policy and Cross-border Entrepreneurship in EU Border Regions: An Enabling or Constraining Influence? David Smallbone and Mirela XhenetiIndex