Edited by Henri L.F. de Groot, Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and Ecorys NEI, Peter Nijkamp, Professor Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Centre for European Studies, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Romania and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China and the late Roger R. Stough, formerly School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 2. Firm Behaviour and Organisation from an Evolutionary Perspective 3. The Roles of Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth: Toward a Theory of Total Factor Productivity 4. Technocapitalism and the New Ecology of Entrepreneurship Part II: Spatial Variation in Drivers of Economic Development 5. Spatial Variation in Social Capital Among UK Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 6. The Institutionalization and Endogenization of Venture Capital: A Regional Analysis of Northern Virginia in the 1990s 7. Human Capital and Regional Socio-economic Performance: Differential Patterns Across Australia’s Cities and Towns Part III: Empirical Case Studies 8. A Knowledge-based View on Innovation in Regional Networks: The Case of the KIC Project 9. The Role of Collective Learning in ICT Adoption and Use 10. Industrial Clusters and Regional Development: A Transactions-Costs Perspective on the Semiconductor Industry 11. Academic Knowledge and Fostering Entrepreneurship: An Evolutionary Perspective Part IV: Theoretical Approaches 12. Location of Engineering and Designer Services in the Information Economy 13. Firm Dynamics and Self-organised Criticality 14. Knowledge, Capital Formation and Innovation Behaviour in a Spatial Context Index

'This is a book with several excellent and interesting contributions on spatial aspects of entrepreneurship and economic growth.'