Entrepreneurship and regional development : the role of clusters / Héctor O. Rocha, IAE Business School, Argentina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rocha, Héctor O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Regional economics.

Regional planning.

Physical Description:

xviii, 336 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Do clusters matter to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship regional outcomes? Why (or why not)? These questions, anchored in the current gap between the interest in clusters and entrepreneurship and the little research on their joint impact on regional development, are the lei motiv of this book. In effect, near 400 million people are starting or running new businesses, half of them in developing countries. Also, hundreds of cluster initiatives have been launched in all the regions of the world arguing that, among other benefits, they promote entrepreneurship and employment growth. Yet, both academics and policymakers know little about the joint impact of entrepreneurship and clusters on regional development. The reason is the wide diversity of theoretical and policy approaches to define and measure clusters and entrepreneurship, and to evaluate their effect on regional development. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development aims at answering the questions and filling the relevance-rigor gap that motivates this book by reviewing the latest studies, elaborating and testing a socio-economic theory of clusters, and providing implications for academics and policy-makers. Book jacket.

Contents:

List of tables

List of figures

Foreword / by David Audrestch

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the author

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Reviewing and discovering the concepts

Elaborating a socio-economic theory of the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship regional outcomes

Preparing the terrain for empirical testing

Getting results

Making an academic and policy contribution

Appendices

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137298256

1137298251

OCLC:

855581252