1st Edition
Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development A Comparative Perspective on Entrepreneurs, Universities and Governments
Introduction: entrepreneurs, universities and governments PART I Entrepreneurship and its frames 1 Entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur and the territory: an introduction 2 Are anchor institutions the answer to the prayers of small business owners in the UK? 3 Comparative analysis of innovation policy and market quality: lessons from Russia and Japan 4 Different types of informal entrepreneurs in fragile ‘transitional’ contexts: case-based evidence in Russia 5 Re-stimulating Chinese entrepreneurship through the mixed ownership reform 6 Determinants of the internationalization of Chinese enterprises: evidence from firm-level survey data 7 Managerial quality, business liberalization and corruption: the case of Turkey PART II Entrepreneurship, universities and governments 8 Innovation modes and knowledge relations: the learning match between university and enterprises from a regional perspective 9 Creative workers in Europe: is it a reserve of the ‘Would-Be Entrepreneurs’? A cross country comparison 10 Graduate entrepreneurship support: what higher education institutions do, and how government can support them. Lessons from Hungary and Ireland 11 The effect of government intervention on entrepreneurship: empirical evidence from China PART III The territory as context 12 The role of a local university in regional development: the case of Regensburg 13 Academic spin-offs and the innovative city: universities’ role in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Boston 14 Native and immigrant entrepreneurship: costs of doing business and local liabilities Conclusion: the triple helix, social impacts and beyond
Biography
Bruno Dallago is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, Department of Economics and Management, Italy.
Ermanno Tortia is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, Department of Economics and Management, Italy.
