Entrepreneurship

This book offers an in-depth look at entrepreneurship in ten diverse international universities — from the northernmost university in Tromsø, Norway to one of America’s largest universities in Austin, Texas, and examines how these universities commercialize scientific research, develop entrepreneuri..

Increasingly, entrepreneurship research recognizes a wide variety in entrepreneurial behaviour. One such difference is marked between experienced or habitual entrepreneurs and novices. This book, authored by established experts in the field, introduces and explores the habitual entrepreneur phenomen..

What makes a person entrepreneurial? This book develops the building blocks of an entrepreneurial mindset to help readers to understand the entrepreneurial journey._x000D_ The author takes an entrepreneurs-eye view on the world which navigates through the diverse approaches to entrepreneurship to fo..

Since the 1980s, governments have often sought to encourage entrepreneurship on the assumption that it creates small businesses as the primary drivers of job creation. As a result, entrepreneurship has become a valid subject for academic research attracting extensive funding. Despite this explosion ..

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The book investigates the definition of the theoretical basis and the operationalisation of the triple helix system of innovation in the context of developing countries. It considers the triple helix approach as a policy position that is capable of providing a sustainable basis for innovation and te..

Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development explores developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs...

This book discusses how transformational entrepreneurship uses novel business practices to reduce inequality in the marketplace and how it transforms society through creative solutions that enable change. The book provides useful insight into better understanding this emerging concept...

Understanding the Born Global Firm, combines the many different theoretical perspectives on born globals that have been previously researched, providing a unified framework to connect the antecedents, types and outcomes of entrepreneurial activities pursued by such new ventures. A central case study..

This book examines how values-centered entrepreneurs balance the profit objective with social responsibility in key aspects of their business operation – from their initial company formation, through growth, to exit – to build successful triple bottom-line companies...

Why do women start their own businesses? Is it solely because they are searching for financial success, or for other reasons? On the basis of detailed interviews with a number of women who have started their own businesses, this book, first published in 1985, reveals the significance of factors that..

WomenPreneurs: 21st Century Success Strategies brings together some three decades of research and writing to provide readers with a map for recognizing problems that many will encounter in organizational and entrepreneurial environments, the reasons these conditions exist and solutions that have wor..