Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Local Development: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847203272 ISBN 13: 9781847203274

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

This book draws together leading academics to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the key challenges to entrepreneurship in Europe.

Relationships between entrepreneurship, competitiveness and local development are assessed from various perspectives, and the important role played by entrepreneurs and small firms in fostering economic development in emerging as well as in developed countries is explored. Topics included within these parameters are venture capital, start-ups, entry barriers, the role of gender, refugee entrepreneurship and technological entrepreneurship.

Researchers and scholars focusing on the areas of entrepreneurship and small business management will find much to interest them within this book, as will policy-makers involved in the promotion and support of local development and entrepreneurship.

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About the Author

Edited by Luca Iandoli, Associate Dean for Global Programs and Research and Professor of Computer Science, St. John’s University, New York, US, Hans Landström, Professor Emeritus in Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden and the late Mario Raffa, formerly University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847203272
• ISBN 13: 9781847203274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Iandoli Luca, Landström Hans, Raffa Mario