Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship

Bengt Johannisson, professor in Entrepreneurship at Linnaeus and Jönköping Univeersities. He for a decade was the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and is the 2008 Winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand is professor in Business administration, specializing in Entrepreneurship, at Halmstad University, Sweden. She is also Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focus is on new and small technology-based firms and the linking of entrepreneurship and innovation.

• 1. Introduction: The Challenge, the Journey, the Lessons, BENGT JOHANNISSON and ÅSA LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND 2. Bridging the Functional and Territorial Rationales—Proposing an Integrating Framework for Regional Dynamics, BENGT JOHANNISSON and ÅSA LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND 3. The Incubus Paradox: Attempts at Foundational Rethinking of the "SME Support Genre", FREDERIC BILL, BENGT JOHANNISSON and LENA OLAISON 4. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems: Towards a Development of the ERIS/IRIS Concept, HÅKAN YLINENPÄÄ 5. Creating an Entrepreneurial Region: Two Waves of Academic Spin-offs from Halmstad University, EVA BERGGREN and ÅSA LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND 6. Returnees and Local Stakeholders Co-producing the Entrepreneurial Region, JOHAN GADDEFORS and NICLAS CRONSELL 7. Regional Development by Means of Broadened Entrepreneurship ANDERS W. JOHANISSON 8. The Region as a Take-off for Glocal Strategizing. BENGT JOHANISSON