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Book SynopsisIlluminating and timely, this book explores several theoretical and empirical issues related to the potential for increasing capacities for innovation, knowledge and entrepreneurship. It highlights the current academic and political consensus that calls for policy interventions targeted towards more balanced, inclusive and regionally cohesive growth.
Bringing together a wide range of cutting-edge case studies and research on regional potentials, the book explores the need for a focus on the regional inequality aspects of innovating, knowledge and entrepreneurship. Chapters analyse previously underexplored determinants of regional economic growth and development often overlooked in standard growth studies. They offer a deeper understanding of the drivers and implications of sub-national disparities in entrepreneurship and innovation in both developed and developing countries.
Scholars and researchers of innovation, entrepreneurship, regional economics and spatial planning will appreciate the blend of empirical and theoretical viewpoints in the book. It will also be a useful tool for policymakers, planners and consultants involved in economic development and regional policies on different scales.
Trade Review‘Innovation and entrepreneurship are key to economic development. But these factors are far more concentrated geographically than wealth or employment. Why is this the case? Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship
provides the answers. A must-read for scholars and policymakers who want to unleash the economic potential of territories.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Increasing Capacities 1 Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson 2 Activating and redirecting regional potentials through innovation and entrepreneurship: an explorative study of European regions 14 Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen 3 Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators 38 Claudia Trillo 4 Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems 64 Helen Lawton Smith 5 Industrial policy in developed countries: a difficult but important policy area 81 Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli 6 Cultural policy for unlocking potentials of cultural activities in diverse regions 111 Giedrė Dzemydaitė 7 Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity in Italian regions 134 Roberto Antonietti and Chiara Burlina 8 Regional institutions and small business in Russia 158 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 186 Albert Kraaij and Saskia Rademaker 10 How patenting and self-employment have affected US metropolitan growth 219 Gordon F. Mulligan 11 Automation of income support in the public social services: a case study of an innovation that is still struggling 248 Elin Wihlborg and Mariana S. Gustafsson 12 Businessization and collaboration of the citizen/non-profit sector in Japan 271 Masashi Imase 13 Complementary smart specialization in a key Polish region 298 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 321 Victoria Johansson and Deeqa Odaway Index
