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Entrepreneurship and the Industry Life Cycle

The Changing Role of Human Capital and Competences

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Editors:
  1. Serena Cubico

    1. Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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  2. Giuseppe Favretto

    1. Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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  3. João Leitão

    1. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

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  4. Uwe Cantner

    1. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

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  • Studies the complex relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge competencies, considering industry dynamics
  • Brings together leading international cases along the industry life cycle
  • Provides solid theoretical reviews and robust empirical applications on knowledge competencies and human capital

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Serena Cubico, Giuseppe Favretto, João Leitão, Uwe Cantner
    Pages 1-9

  3. Entrepreneurial and Knowledge Competences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Entrepreneurial Competences: Comparing and Contrasting Models and Taxonomies

      • Giovanna Gianesini, Serena Cubico, Giuseppe Favretto, João Leitão
      Pages 13-32

    3. Heterogeneity and the Origin of the Founding Team: How the Concepts Relate and Affect Entrepreneurial Behavior

      • Gertie M. Agraz-Boeneker, Maria del Mar Fuentes-Fuentes
      Pages 33-58

    4. Entrepreneurial Aptitude and Gender-Related Stereotypes: A Research on Competences, Policies and Practices to Foster Entrepreneurial Culture in a Less Favoured Environment

      • Stefano Noventa, Serena Cubico, Maddalena Formicuzzi, Piermatteo Ardolino, Giuseppe Favretto, Francesco Ciabuschi et al.
      Pages 59-90

    5. Co-leadership and Performance in Technology-Based Entrepreneurial Firms

      • Daniel Pittino, Francesca Visintin, Cristiana Compagno
      Pages 91-106

    6. Human Capital, Organizational Competences and Knowledge and Innovation Transfer: A Case Study Applied to the Mining Sector

      • Margarida Rodrigues, João Leitão
      Pages 107-136

    7. Specific Practices of Human Resource Management in the Creation and Development of Micro and Small Firms, Case Studies in Portuguese Firms

      • Helder Antunes, António Nunes
      Pages 137-171

  4. Innovative Networks and Entrepreneurial Activities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. The Selective Nature of Innovator Networks: From the Nascent to the Early Growth Phase of the Organizational Life Cycle

      • Uwe Cantner, Tina Wolf
      Pages 175-204

    3. The Decline of Innovation in the Antibiotics Industry and the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance: When Entrepreneurial Efforts are Not Enough

      • Francesco Ciabuschi, Olof Lindahl
      Pages 205-229

    4. Entrepreneurship Success Factors in High and Low Early Stage Entrepreneurship Intensity Countries

      • Ruth Alas, Tiit Elenurm, Elizabeth J. Rozell, Wesley A. Scroggins
      Pages 231-245

    5. Reasons for the Almost Complete Absence of High-Growth Ambition and Innovation Activity of Early-Stage Entrepreneurs in Brazil

      • Ronald Jean Degen, Nicholas Harkiolakis
      Pages 247-268

    6. Hindering Factors to Innovation: A Panel Data Analysis

      • Joana Costa, Anabela Botelho, João Matias
      Pages 269-298

  5. Entrepreneurship for Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
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    2. Women Entrepreneurship in India: A Work-Life Balance Perspective

      • Ajay K. Jain, Shalini Srivastava, Serena Cubico
      Pages 301-311

    3. The Pentagonal Problem and the Offshore Energy Sector in Portugal: Why Does It Matter?

      • Ana Pego
      Pages 313-328

    4. Entrepreneurial Urban Revitalization

      • Carlos José Lopes Balsas
      Pages 329-340

    5. Unconventional Entrepreneurship and the Municipality: The Role of Passion and Competences

      • Francesca Simeoni, Federico Testa
      Pages 341-358
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About this book

Adopting evolutionary and behavioral approaches, this volume presents the latest research advances in knowledge competencies and human capital, as well as the changing structural dynamics, highlighting their links with entrepreneurial activities. It provides a set of international, benchmark case studies on initiatives (at the national, regional or individual level) geared towards entrepreneurship development. Focusing on diverse environments, systems and life cycle stages: young, established and transition industries and markets; as well as regions, it offers a valuable guide for scholars and practitioners interested in the interaction of entrepreneurship, knowledge competencies, human resources management and innovation.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Serena Cubico, Giuseppe Favretto

  • Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    João Leitão

  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Uwe Cantner

About the editors

Serena Cubico is Assistant Professor of Management at Department of Business Administration, University of Verona in Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and prior to entering academia she was working as Consultant for small and medium sized business (entrepreneurship, human resources management, training, career guidance), and as Coordinator of the Youth Entrepreneurial Centre - University of Verona. Her main research areas are: Entrepreneurship (youth and female, education, start up); Organizational Behavior in SMEs; Family Business; Entrepreneurial Competencies and Potential (identification, assessment, measurement).


Giuseppe Favretto is Full Professor of Management at the Department of Business Administration, University of Verona in Italy. He teaches Management, Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior at Verona, Padova and Urbino Universities. Previously, he was Vice-Rector of the University of Verona; founder and director of research centres (Youth Entrepreneurial Centre; Mobbing and Organizational Well-being Research Center; Assessment Centre). He has authored more than 340 publications on Entrepreneurship; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Well-being, Stress, and Mobbing; Family Business.  



João Leitão is Assistant Professor (tenured) lecturing economics and entrepreneurship. He holds a Habilitation in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship; and a Ph.D. in Economics.  He is associate researcher of the CEG-IST, University of Lisbon and external research fellow at Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He is author and co-author of scientific books on benchmarking, clusters, cooperation networks, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, innovation, competitiveness and quality of life. He won the National Prize of Innovation, 2017 and the Best Paper Award of the Interdisciplinary European Conference in Entrepreneurial Research – IECER 2012. His research work has been published in several indexed journals. His research interests include: entrepreneurship, innovation and public policies.



Uwe Cantner is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Jena, and heads the Chair of Microeconomics. Economics of Innovation, Evolutionary Economics, Industrial Economics. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Economics (part-time) at the University of Southern Denmark, and is the director of “The Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change", and the spokesperson for the DFG Graduate College “The Economics of Innovative Change”. Since 2015 he is part of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation - EFI) which advises the German Federal Government.

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