Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Technological Change, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, the late Börje Johansson, formerly Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Jönköping and Director, CESIS (Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and the late Roger R. Stough, formerly School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US

• Contents:Preface1. IntroductionCharlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough2. Globalization and the Emergence of the Entrepreneurial SocietyDavid B. Audretsch3. New Firm Formation and Economic Development in a Globalizing EconomySierdjan Koster and Charlie Karlsson4. Entrepreneurship and Local Growth: A Comparison of the US and SwedenBenny Borgman and Pontus Braunerhjelm5. Gibrat’s Law Reconsidered: A Creativity PerspectiveZoltan J. Acs and Catherine Armington6. International Linkages and Entrepreneurship in Media Clusters: Evidence from the UKGary A.S. Cook and Naresh R. Pandit7. Household Migration and Attractiveness in Consumer Service SupplyCharlotta Mellander and Johanna Palmberg8. Knowledge Intensive Business Services as Gazelles: Implications of Size on InnovationJohanna Nählinder9. The Community Entrepreneur as a Facilitator of Local Economic DevelopmentLars Rønning, Elisabet Ljunggren and Johan Wiklund10. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Danish Regional PolicyAndreas P. Cornett11. Modeling Just-in-Time Manufacturing in a Vertically Integrated IndustryHo Yeon Kim12. The Innovation and Productivity Effect of Foreign Takeover of National AssetsBörje Johansson, Hans Lööf and Bernd Ebersberger13. Creative Industries and Regional Economic Development – The Example of Public Supported Regional Film Centres in SwedenPer Assmo14. Local Patterns of Growth in a Global Perspective: A Territorial Scenario of an Enlarged EuropeRoberta CapelloIndex

‘“Think Global, Act Local” has become the policy mantra for innovation, growth and competitiveness in the global economy. In this important and insightful book, Karlsson, Johansson and Stough assemble an all star team of international scholars to explicitly draw out the key role that entrepreneurship plays for local economic performance. The interdisciplinary approach contained in this book yields a pathbreaking set of insights for regional policy that will be of great value to both scholars and policy makers.’