Entrepreneurship and Growth in Local, Regional and National Economies

Edited by the late David Smallbone, formerly Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University, UK, Hans Landström, Professor Emeritus in Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden and Dylan Jones-Evans OBE, University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru, UK

• Contents:ForewordFriederike Welter PART I: INTRODUCTION1. IntroductionDavid Smallbone, Hans Landström and Dylan Jones-Evans PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP2. Regional Innovation, Collective Entrepreneurship and Green ClustersPhilip Cooke3. Determinants of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity in European Regions: Distinguishing Low and High Ambition EntrepreneurshipNiels Bosma and Veronique SchutjensPART III: NEW VENTURE CREATION AND GROWTH4. Can New Ventures Develop Pioneer Behaviour in Industries with Unfavourable Conditions? The Role of Capabilities Pedro M. García-Villaverde and María J. Ruiz-Ortega5. Switching from Paid Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Effect on Individuals’ EarningsMiguel Torres Preto, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima6. The Financial Requirements of Early-Stage EntrepreneursColm O’Gorman7. An Examination of the Link between Growth Attitudes and Realized GrowthAnders Isaksson and Vladimir VanyushynPART IV: BUSINESS EXITS8. Becoming an Ex-entrepreneur: Firm Performance and the Sell-out or Dissolution DecisionA. Miguel Amaral, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima9. The Entrepreneur in ‘Risk Society’: The Personal Consequences of Business FailureColin Mason, Sara Carter and Stephen TaggPART V: KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP10. The Creation of Higher Education Institutions and Firm Entry: A Policy EvaluationJoana Mendonça, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima11. Cooperation with Universities and Research Institutions for Corporate Entrepreneurship Activities: The Influence of the Technology Intensity of the EnvironmentÁngela González-Moreno and Francisco J. Sáez-Martínez12. ICT-Related Small Firms with Different Collaborative Network Structures: Different Species or Variations on a Theme? Vinit Parida and Mats WesterbergPART VI: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL INCLUSION13. Does Enterprise Discourse Have the Power to Enable or Disable Deprived Communities?Carole Howorth, Caroline Parkinson and Alan Southern14. Transnationalism, Mixed Embeddedness and Somali Entrepreneurs in LeicesterTrevor Jones, Monder Ram and Nicholas Theodorakopoulos15. The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Potential in Transition Environments: A Challenge for Entrepreneurship Theory or a Developmental Perspective? Friederike Welter and David SmallboneIndex

'The volume provides rich accounts on the enforcement of core issues but also on theoretical and methodological advances of the frontier of the research field. Areas of study that are meritoriously included are business closure and characteristics of the present knowledge economy. New sectors of the research frontier include societal entrepreneurship and the diversity of entrepreneurship in emergent market economies as well as methodologies such as discourse analysis and narrative approaches. This anthology certainly contributes to the crafting of a European identity in the field of entrepreneurship research.'