Entrepreneurship, Social Capital and Governance

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. Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, Governance and Regional Economic Development: An IntroductionCharlie Karlsson2. Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Oxfordshire’s High-tech Economy – Firm Survival, Growth and InnovationHelen Lawton Smith and Saverio Romeo3. The Influence of Clustering on MNE Location and Innovation in Great BritainGary A.S. Cook, Hans Lööf, Naresh R. Pandit and Börje Johansson4. Industrial District Hetereogeneity and Performance: Evidence from ItalyNunzia Carbonara5. Labor Mobility and Entrepreneurship: Who Do New Firms Employ?Kristina Nyström6. Women, Entrepreneurial Activity and Territory: Differences or Myths?José Luis Crespo-Espert, Antonio García-Tabuenca and Federico Pablo-Martí7. Social Capital and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Social Capital in Self-EmploymentSoogwan Doh and Edmund J. Zolnik8. A Multidimensional Perspective on EntrepreneurshipHans Westlund9. The Existence of Pent-up Demand for Rural Broadband Services: An ExplorationPeter L. Stenberg and Mitchell Morehart10. Trust in Secure Public e-Services: Translating Polices into UseIréne Bernhard and Elin Wihlborg11. Do Different Measures of Economic Growth Lead to Different Conclusions?Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö12. Building Rural Entrepreneurship in Greece: Lessons from Lifelong Learning ProgrammesDimitrios G. Ierapetritis and Dimitrios Lagos13. The Location of Business Support Programs: Does the Knowledge Context Matter?Kingsley E. Haynes, Haifeng Qian and Sidney C. Turner14. Technological Adjustments in the Textile, Clothes and Leather Industries: An Alternative Pathway for CompetitivenessMarisa Cesário and Maria Teresa de Noronha Vaz15. Sámi Reindeer Herders in Finland: Pulled to Community-based Entrepreneurship and Pushed to Individualistic FirmsLeo Paul Dana and Jan Åge Riseth16. Local Alternative Development through a Time-Spatial Lens: A Case Study of Ydre Inspired by HägerstrandPer Assmo and Elin WihlborgIndex