Innovative Entrepreneurship in Action

Giuseppina Passiante is Full Professor of Innovation Management and Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Salento (Italy). Currently her research fields concern Technology Entrepreneurship, and more specifically the experiential learning environment encouraging enterprise and entrepreneurship capabilities, skills and competencies. She is also expert in knowledge-based organizations and local systems, ITs and clusters approach, complexity in economic systems. In these research fields she has published several books and about 100 papers.

• Chapter 1. The Genome of Digital Entrepreneurship: A Descriptive Framework.- Chapter 2. Innovation Through Tradition: Leveraging the Past to Face New Challenges.- Chapter 3. Linking Business Model Mapping and Innovation with Intellectual Capital in technological start-ups.- Chapter 4. Facilitating Business startup launch: an interpretative framework based on Project Management.- Chapter 5. Corporate ‘Excelerators’: How Organizations can Speed-up Crowdventuring for Exponential Innovation.- Chapter 6. Financing the Development of Technology Startups.- Chapter 7. Entrepreneurability: Innovation Labs as engines of innovation capacity development.- Chapter 8. Circular Economy Innovative Entrepreneurship: a conceptual foundation.- Chapter 9. Encouraging Entrepreneurial Competence development in Italian University students: insights from the “Contamination Lab” cases.- Chapter 10. Catalyzing innovative entrepreneurship: an Italian case study.- Chapter 11. Supporting Innovative Entrepreneurship in southern Italy: the case of a public private technology district.