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Book SynopsisIn the constant challenge economies face to grow and adapt, entrepreneurship and innovation are considered key factors. This impressive book shows the complementary and decisive role that education, access to an efficient financial system, and regulation may have in creating an entrepreneurial society.
Trade ReviewThe concept of the ''entrepreneurial economy'' stems from the widespread belief that entrepreneurship is perhaps the most important and scarcest input factor of modern highly developed economies. This has resulted in a multitude of studies on the drivers and consequences of entrepreneurship in its many manifestations. Less is known about how entrepreneurship interlinks with modern institutions and policy aims such as education, finance, regulation, and the struggle with crises. The present volume fills this gap in our understanding of the ''entrepreneurial economy''. It shows that the concept of the ''entrepreneurial economy'' is so broad that ''entrepreneurial society'' is the better term.
- --Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Table of ContentsContents: Toward the Entrepreneurial Society Jean Bonnet, Marcus Dejardin and Antonia Madrid-Guijarro PART I: ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVES, EDUCATION AND PERFORMANCE 1. The Results of Education in University: Does it Foster Students’ Propensity Towards Entrepreneurial Careers? José Luis Vázquez, Ana Lanero, Pablo Gutiérrez and Maria Purificación García 2. Methodological Proposal for Determining Entrepreneurial Competencies from the Entrepreneurship Education Approach José A. Porras, Guadalupe Oliveras and Hernán P. Vigier 3. The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur: A Cognitive Perspective Alicia Rubio Bañón, Antonio Aragón Sánchez and Paula Sastre Vivaracho 4. Innovative Entrepreneurship as a Way to Meet Professional Dissatisfactions Jean Bonnet, Thomas Brau and Antonia Madrid-Guijarro PART II: ENTREPRENEURIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND INNOVATION 5. Does Innovation Contribute to Sustainability or Not? Luísa Carvalho and Teresa Costa 6. Barriers to Innovation in Mexican Manufacturing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: An Empirical Study Gonzalo Maldonado Guzmán, María del Carmen Martínez Serna, Domingo García Pérez de Lema and Antonia Madrid-Guijarro 7. Uncertainty and Vertical Cooperation in R&D: The Case of Monopoly Mathilde Aubry 8. Which are the Determinant Factors for Manufacturing Firms to Undertake R&D Activities in Spain and the United Kingdom? Mariluz Mate-Sanchez-Val and Richard Harris 9. Creative Problem Solving Method in Organizational Innovation Fernando Cardoso Sousa, Ileana Pardal Monteiro and Antonio Juan Briones Peñalver PART III: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, FINANCE AND CRISIS 10. Venture Capital in Spain: An Analysis of Financial Contracts M. Camino Ramón-Llorens and Ginés Hernández-Cánovas 11. The Use of Banking Debt by New French Firms: The Lessons of Financial Theory Françoise Bastié, Sylvie Cieply and Pascal Cussy 12. Does the Regional Dimension Matter as Regards Finance and Entrepreneurship? Jean Bonnet, Sylvie Cieply and Marcus Dejardin 13. Obstacles Involved in the Business Creation Process and How They Have Evolved: The Case of the Region of Murcia Antonio García Sánchez and Andrés Sánchez Cerón 14. The Entrepreneurial Experience of Small and Medium Sized Firms in Times of Crisis: Empirical Evidence from Catalonia, Spain Pere Segarra, Eleni Papaoikonomou and Xiaoni Li PART IV: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGULATION 15. Under What Conditions Can a Regulation Become a Source of Entrepreneurial Opportunities? Amélie Jacquemin and Frank Janssen 16. How Diverse is Entrepreneurship? Observations on the Social Heterogeneity of Self-Employment in Germany Dieter Bögenhold and Uwe Fachinger 17. Employer Enterprises in Portugal: Size Distribution Dynamics Elsa de Morais Sarmento and Alcina Nunes 18. Business Demography Dynamics in Portugal: A Non-Parametric Survival Analysis Alcina Nunes and Elsa de Morais Sarmento 19. Understanding the Entrepreneurial Society: Some Concluding Comments on a Work in Progress Jean Bonnet, Marcus Dejardin, Antonia Madrid-Guijarro Index
