Entrepreneurship, Investment and Spatial Dynamics

Edited by 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, Ronald L. Moomaw, Spears School of Business, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, US and Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag, Head, Centre for International Macroeconomic Analysis, The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland and Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany

• Contents:PrefacePART I: OVERVIEW1. Spatial Patterns of Entrepreneurship and Investment: Lessons and Implications for the Enlarged European UnionPeter Nijkamp, Ronald L. Moomaw and Iulia Traistaru-SiedschlagPART II: INVESTMENT2. Foreign Direct Investments in EU Accession Countries: A Case Study on HungaryPeter Nijkamp and Balint Toth3. European Integration and Japanese Direct Investment in the Central and East European CountriesAndrzej Cieslik and Michael Ryan4. Foreign Direct Investment Profitability: EU Firms in RomaniaFazia Pusterla5. Financial Integration of Investment Performance in the European UnionHasan VergilPART III: ENTREPRENEURSHIP6. The Determinants of Regional Differences in New Firm Formation in Western GermanyUdo Brixy and Michael Niese7. Rural Entrepreneurship Success DeterminantsMaira Lescevica8. The Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Entrepreneurship Development: A Country Level AnalysisEric A. Scorsone, Ronald A. Fleming, Margarita Somov and Victoria BurkePART IV: REGIONAL SPILLOVERS9. SMEs and Territorial Networks: The Emerging Framework in RomaniaDaniela Luminita Constantin10. Research and Development, Knowledge Spillovers and Regional Growth in EuropeSeyit Köse and Ronald L. Moomaw11. Foreign Direct Investment and Learning Regions in Central and Eastern EuropeMarina van Geenhuizen and Peter NijkampIndex