Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development - A Comparative Perspective on Entrepreneurs, Universities and Governments (Hardcover)

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. With globalization, entrepreneurship has become fundamental for the competitiveness of territories and countries, for policy management and for development. The local dimension is fundamental because of agglomeration economies and effects, the advantages of proximity and the nature of knowledge and information. Furthermore, territories carry to the centre-stage tacit knowledge, localized social capital, embeddedness and interpersonal relations as fundamental components of their endogenous socio-economic development and competitiveness. When local systems are connected in a horizontal network, they contribute to the strength of national and international systems. To play a constructive role from this perspective, entrepreneurship must avoid local entrenchment and support the local economy to upgrade and be competitive. To do this, the entrepreneurs' interaction and alliance with universities and governments is a must for those countries and localities wanting to emerge. This requires that enterprises, universities and governments create synergies and spill-overs to their mutual advantage.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2019
Editors:	Bruno Dallago • Ermanno Tortia
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-6799-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship
LSN:	0-8153-6799-6
Barcode:	9780815367994

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