Edited by David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, USA, and Professor, the aspire! Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Social Competence, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Oliver Falck, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Capital and Innovation, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich, Germany, Stephan Heblich, Associate Professor and Munk Chair of Eonomics, University of Toronto, Canada and Adam Lederer, DIW Berlin, Germany

• Contents:PrefacePART I: THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP1. Invention and Social Entrepreneurship: Social Good and Social EvilWilliam J. Baumol2. Between Useful and Useless Innovation: The Entrepreneurial RoleIsrael M. Kirzner3. Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking BehaviorMarcus Dejardin4. Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?Mirjam van PraagPART II: INSTITUTIONS, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP5. Industrial Policy, Entrepreneurship and GrowthPhilippe Aghion6. The Role of Patents and Licenses in Securing External Finance for InnovationDietmar Harhoff7. Entry Regulation and Firm Entry: Evidence from German ReunificationSusanne Prantl8. Financing Constraints and EntrepreneurshipWilliam R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda9. The New Argonauts and the Rise of Venture Capital in the ‘Periphery’AnnaLee Saxenian and Charles F. Sabel10. Institutional Impact on the Outreach and Profitability of Microfinance OrganizationsKathy Fogel, Kevin Lee and William McCumberPART III: KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS, THE GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND GROWTH11. Innovation in Cities: Classical and Random Urban Growth ModelsGilles Duranton12. Knowledge Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation – Revisited: A 20 Years’ Perspective on the Field on Geography of InnovationMaryann P. Feldman and Gil Avnimelech13. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth: Interdependencies, Irregularities and RegularitiesPontus Braunerhjelm14. New Knowledge: The Driving Force of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic DevelopmentBo Carlsson15. Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Search for Knowledge SpilloversZoltan J. Acs16. Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic GrowthDavid B. Audretsch and Max KeilbachPART IV: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP17. Startup Firms from Research in US Universities Richard A. Jensen18. Universities as Research Partners: Entrepreneurial Explorations and ExploitationsAlbert N. Link and Charles W. Wessner19. The Rise of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship: Managerial and Policy ImplicationsDonald S. Siegel20. The Innovator’s Decision: Entrepreneurship versus Technology TransferDaniel F. Spulber21. What Do Scientists Think About Commercialization Activities?Werner BöntePART V: FIRMS AND INNOVATION22. Small Firms and InnovationSimon C. Parker23. Start-ups in Innovative Industries: Causes and EffectsMichael Fritsch24. Innovation and the Evolution of Industries: A Tale of Incentives, Knowledge and NeedsUwe Cantner and Marco Guerzoni25. How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli26. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and InstitutionsErik Stam and Bart Nooteboom27. The Propensity to Patent an Innovation Comparing Entrepreneurial with Routinized InnovatorsAlfred Kleinknecht and Gerben van der Panne28. Business–Public Research Collaborations, Entrepreneurship and Market Orientation: Impact on Innovativeness in Regional ClustersAndreas Eisingerich and Tobias KretschmerPART VI: THE MAKING OF THE ENTREPRENEUR29. The Genetics of EntrepreneurshipNicos Nicolaou and Scott Shane30. Entrepreneurship EducationOliver Falck, Robert Gold and Stephan HeblichIndex

'An essential read for the students of entrepreneurship and for those who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career in the near future. This handbook can be considered to be a reference point in seeking knowledge about how various aspects of the environment affect the whole dynamics of innovation and therefore entrepreneurship, and how innovation can manifest itself in various forms of social good and social evil.'