Geographies of Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9781138546479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str.

Elizabeth A. Mack; Haifeng Qian

Opis

This book explores entrepreneurship from regions around the globe to enhance our policy and practical knowledge about the unique regional context in which entrepreneurs operate and demonstrate the importance of geography to entrepreneurial activity. Regions with diverse regional, industrial, and temporal contexts are explored and compared. Chapters explore a range of topics, such as patterns of regional/subnational variations in entrepreneurial activity, geographically mediated determinants of entrepreneurship, inter-temporal dynamics, evolution of regional systems of entrepreneurship, the impact of entrepreneurship on regional development and regional entrepreneurship policy.

Spis treści

1. The Geography of Entrepreneurship   2. The Geography of the Innovation-Entrepreneurship Nexus in Europe   3. Networking Practices and Networking Cultures Benjamin Spigel  4. The Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship-Are All Types of Self-Employment Equally Important?   5. Two Strands of Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Technology Ventures and Traditional Small Businesses in South Korea   6. The Development of Entrepreneurship in China: A Geographical and Institutional Perspective   7. The Intra-Metropolitan Geography of Entrepreneurship: A Spatial, Temporal, and Industrial Analysis (1989-2010)   8. Are Start-Ups The Same Everywhere? The Urban-Rural Skill Gap in Swedish Entrepreneurship   9. Entrepreneurship in Peripheral Regions: A Relational Perspective 10. The Geography of Entrepreneurship: Where Are We? Where Do We Go?