Unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship : the potential for increasing capacities / edited by Iréne Bernhard, PhD, Urban Gråsjö, PhD (School of Business, Economics and IT, University West) and Charlie Karlsson (professor emeritus, Jönköping University and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernhard, Iréne, editor.

Gråsjö, Urban, editor.

Karlsson, Charlie, 1945- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

New horizons in regional science

New horizons in regional science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Introduction to unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship: The potential for increasing capacities / Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson

2. Activating and redirecting regional potentials through innovation and entrepreneurship: An explorative study of European regions / Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen

3. Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators / Claudia Trillo

4. Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems / Helen Lawton Smith

5. Industrial policy in developed countries: A difficult but important policy area / Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli

6. Cultural policy for unlocking potentials of cultural activities in diverse regions / Giedrė Dzemydaitė

7. Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity in Italian regions / Roberto Antonietti and Chiara Burlina

8. Regional institutions and small business in Russia / Yulia V. Tsareva, Stepan P. Zemtsov and Vera A. Barinova

9. Hiring the first employee: An international exploration on the considerations leading to job creation by the solo self-employed / Albert Kraaij and Saskia Rademaker

10. How patenting and self-employment have affected us metropolitan growth / Gordon F. Mulligan

11. Automation of income support in the public social services: A case study of an innovation that is still struggling / Elin Wihlborg and Mariana S. Gustafsson

12. Businessization and collaboration of the citizen/non-profit sector in Japan / Masashi Imase

13. Complementary smart specialization in a key Polish region / Patryk Czerwony, Mirosław Miller and Tomasz Mroczkowski

14. Higher education and inclusion: A comparative study of immigrants' challenges, opportunities and strategies in Sweden and South Africa / Victoria Johansson and Deeqa Odaway

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9781800371248

1800371241

Publisher Number:

40030623209

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.