Overview
- Highlights the importance of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems and their role in supporting regional competitiveness
- Brings together various conceptualizations of innovation and ecosystems and discusses their effect on sustainable growth
- Rethinks the role of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology transfer, and explores their impact in different regional contexts
Part of the book series: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics (ESID)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book discusses the importance of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems in supporting regional competitiveness. It also encourages academics, business professionals and policy-makers to rethink innovation ecosystems as drivers of regional competitiveness, demonstrating the complex interactions between regional economic and social actors, and their impact on regional competitiveness. Further, the book examines the role of entrepreneurship and innovation policies in different regions (e.g. lagging regions, rural regions, etc.), and describes critical success factors in multi-level technologies and innovation policies and strategies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Luís Farinha is an Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, and Assistant Professor and researcher at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal). He is the founder and Dean of the Regional Helix – International Conference, and is Vice President of InovCluster, a nationally and internationally recognized center of excellence in the agro-industrial sector. He is the co-editor of two books: Handbook of Research on Global Competitive Advantage through Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Multiple Helix Ecosystems for Sustainable Competitiveness (Springer, 2016), and has published several journal articles and book chapters.
Domingos Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB) in Portugal. He has been involved in several national and European research projects, and was the executive coordinator of the Center for Regional Development Studies at the IPCB, where he was responsible for defining and implementing the institution's innovation and entrepreneurship policy. He has been involved in the evaluation of public policies and programs in Portugal and was the executive coordinator of the Center for Regional Development Studies at IPCB.
João J. Ferreira is an Associate Professor at University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He completed the European Doctoral Programme on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He is currently the scientific coordinator of NECE – a research unit on business sciences. He has published several articles in international journals and has edited a number of international books.
Marina Ranga works with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain, and is also an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw's School of Management. She has held academic positions at Stanford University and at several universities in Europe. She also carries out consultancy and evaluation work for the European Commission and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the UN Economic Commission for Europe, and national and regional government innovation agencies. She chairs the Strategic Advisory Board of Imperial College’s Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities and of the Scientific Board of the University-Industry Innovation Network (UIIN).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regional Helix Ecosystems and Sustainable Growth
Book Subtitle: The Interaction of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
Editors: Luís Farinha, Domingos Santos, João J. Ferreira, Marina Ranga
Series Title: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47697-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47696-0Published: 30 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47699-1Published: 30 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47697-7Published: 29 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2511-2023
Series E-ISSN: 2511-2031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 177
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Regional Development, Entrepreneurship, R & D/Technology Policy