Entrepreneurship and Business

1. Front Matter

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2. Entrepreneurship in the Regional Context

   1. Introduction

      • Miguel-Ángel Galindo Martín, Joaquín Guzman Cuevas, Domingo Ribeiro Soriano

      Pages 3-9

   2. A General View on Regional Economics

      • Paola Savi

      Pages 13-31

   3. Issues in Regional Economics: The Economic Thought of Some Italian Authors of the Past

      • Cristina Nardi Spiller, Stefano Zamberlan

      Pages 33-50

   4. Entrepreneurial Structure From a Regional Perspective

      • Joaquin Guzmán, Francisco J. Santos

      Pages 51-73

   5. Entrepreneurship and Growth: The Need to Combine Micro and Macro Perspectives

      • Villy Søgaard

      Pages 75-99

   6. Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in a Regional Context: The Case of Spanish Regions

      • Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Miguel-Ángel Galindo, M. Teresa Méndez

      Pages 101-111

   7. The Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: A Review of Recent Research Achievements

      • Dominiak Piotr, Marek Rekowski

      Pages 113-136

   8. Networking and Entrepreneurship in Place

      • Bengt Johannisson

      Pages 137-162

   9. The Quest for a New Development Policy

      • Antonio Vázquez-Barquero

      Pages 163-184

3. Entrepreneurial Perspective of the Business

   1. Clusters and Business Innovation

      • Álvaro Cuervo-García, Ángeles Montoro-Sánchez, Ana María Romero-Martínez

      Pages 187-210

   2. Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Transition Environments

      • David Smallbone, Friederike Welter

      Pages 211-228

   3. Successful Rural Hosted Accommodation in Western Australia: Gender Matters

      • Paull Weber, Jack Carlsen

      Pages 229-246

   4. Universidad Social Capital and the Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs: A Review of the Literature and Proposals

      • Mariel Fornoni, Francisco Mas-Verdú, Domingo Ribeiro Soriano, Salvador Roig Dobón

      Pages 247-268

   5. Entrepreneur and Organization: Symbiotic Change and Transition

      • Emeric Solymossy

      Pages 269-290

   6. Female Entrepreneurship

      • Nerys Fuller-Love

      Pages 291-308

Miguel-Ángel Galindo Martín, Joaquín Guzman Cuevas and Domingo Ribeiro Soriano University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain The economic growth and the progress of the nations have been two issues that have worried to the economists during centuries. The classical eco- mics books have developed different theories and considered several f- tors that could explain those processes. Unfortunately, a single answer has not been obtained and nowadays economists try also to achieve a response to the mechanism of economic growth. Economic growth has been considered as one of the most relevant e- nomic policy. As it is well known, the validity of an economic policy is measured in terms of economic growth rate. It is supposed that those countries that obtain a higher economic growth rate are designing more efficient economic policies than those that show lower rates. The main corollary to this hypothesis is that the developing countries must follow and copy the economic policies designed by the developed countries.

• Change
• Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship
• Spin-off
• business
• clusters
• competitiveness
• economic growth
• innovation
• regional economics
• transition

From the reviews: “This book provides an … overview of the modern concepts of entrepreneurship and those aspects related to regional economics. … Relevance is given to a must-reading article for all those in charge to develop regulatory systems encouraging entrepreneurship within fragile environments. … In summary, I would propose this book as a broad and rich overview on Entrepreneurship and Business from a regional perspective. … highly recommended.” (Teresa de Noronha Vaz, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 89 (1), March, 2010)

• University of Castilla-La Mancha Facultad de DD.EE.EE., Plaza de la Universidad, Albacete, Spain

  Miguel-Angel Galindo

• Departamento Econom a Aplicable I., University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

  Joaquín Guzman

• Faculta de Economia Dep. Dir. De Empresas, University of València, Valencia, Spain

  Domingo Ribeiro

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