Entrepreneurship, growth and economic development frontiers in European entrepreneurship research /

This timely book presents contemporary research on the key role of entrepreneurship in firm growth and development strategies. The contributors reveal that a high level of entrepreneurial activity contributes to economic growth, innovative activities, competition, job creation and local development.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference Budapest, Hungary), European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship., Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Raposo, Mário.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2011.
Subjects:
Entrepreneurship > Europe > Congresses.
Economic development > Congresses.
Growth > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9780857934673.xml
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction : entrepreneurship, growth and economic development / Mário Raposo ... [et al.] -- 2. Are firm growth and performance the same or different concepts in empirical entrepreneurship studies? : an analysis of the dependent and independent variables / Niklas Kiviluoto, Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud -- 3. Developing and testing a typology of growth strategies of entrepreneurial IT service firms / Olivier Witmeur and Alain Fayolle -- 4. Understanding the start-up funding process in venture capital-backed and non-venture capital-backed firms / Teresa Hogan and Elaine Hutson -- 5. A new approach to testing the effects of entrepreneurship education among secondary school pupils / Jan Lepoutre ... [et al.] -- 6. Effects of regional human capital structure on business entry : a comparison of independent start-ups and new subsidiaries in different industries / Kenta Ikeuchi and Hiroyuki Okamuro -- 7. Cross-border cooperation between enterprises as a form of international entrepreneurship / David Smallbone, Mirela Xheneti and Friederike Welter -- 8. The entrepreneurship potential within Swiss regions : a comparison based on cluster analysis / Katharina Becker, Franz Kronthaler and Kerstin Wagner -- 9. A theoretical model of competitiveness and its application in the Hungarian SME sector / László Szerb and József Ulbert -- 10. The emergence of a knowledge-intensive industry : a study of the RFID industry / David Finn and Colm O'Gorman -- 11. Toward a hermeneutical methodology for entrepreneurship research in a radical subjectivist paradigm / Christoph Streb and Vishal Gupta. 
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