Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Egypt

Nagla Rizk is professor of economics and founding director of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the School of Business of the American University in Cairo. She is also a faculty associate at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Hassan Azzazy is professor of chemistry at the American University in Cairo and is the founder of the Novel Diagnostics and Therapeutics Research Group. He has worked with the European Training Foundation to promote the introduction of entrepreneurial learning in higher education in Egypt, and is the recipient of the Young Innovator Award from Burayda Colleges in Saudi Arabia and the Global Innovator Award from Texas Christian University.

• List of TablesList of FiguresNote on ContributorsForewordIntroduction1. Entrepreneurs as Heroes of Development, Zuhayr Mikdashi2. Facilitating Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Change, Shailendra Vyakarnam and Shima Barakat3. Putting the Horse before the Cart: Understanding Creativity and Enterprising Behaviors, Andy Penaluna and Kathryn Penaluna4. Entrepreneurial Universities in Egypt: Opportunities and Challenges, David A. Kirby and Nagwa Ibrahim5. Varieties of Entrepreneurs: The Entrepreneurship Landscape in Egypt, Ayman Ismail and Sherif Yehia6. Entrepreneurs in the ‘Missing Middle’: Know your Funding Options, Adel Boseli7. Building a University-Centered Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: A Case Study of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at the American University in Cairo, Ayman Ismail8. Schumpeterian Entrepreneurs, Total Factor Productivity and Institutions: Firm-Level Data Analysis from Egypt, Karim Badr9. The Egyptian Revolution: An Entrepreneurial Act?, Khaled Ismail

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