Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development A Comparative Perspective on Entrepreneurs, Universities and Governments

• Other Authors: Dallago, Bruno (Editor), Tortia, Ermanno (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2019
• Series: Routledge studies in the modern world economy 180
• Subjects: Entrepreneurship; New business enterprises; Small business; Community development
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 This book focuses on the nature and role of entrepreneurship in modern developed and emerging economies and societies, its relation to governments and universities, and its role in the often-forgotten informal economy. The aim is to position entrepreneurship in the post-crisis context and explore how its relation to universities and governments contributes to explain the countries' and territories' growth performance and resilience or vulnerability to the crisis. The accent is particularly on processes and patterns at local level and in small and medium-sized enterprises in local economic systems and districts, local systems of innovation, and the types and configurations of innovation these give origin to.