Entrepreneurship, social capital and governance directions for the sustainable development and competitiveness of regions

This book highlights the role of entrepreneurship, social capital and governance for regional economic development. In recent decades, many researchers have claimed that entrepreneurship is the most critical factor in sustaining regional economic growth. However, most entrepreneurship research is un...

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Main Author: Johansson, Börje
Other Authors: Karlsson, Charlie, Stough, Roger R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd 2012
Series:New horizons in regional science
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520 |a This book highlights the role of entrepreneurship, social capital and governance for regional economic development. In recent decades, many researchers have claimed that entrepreneurship is the most critical factor in sustaining regional economic growth. However, most entrepreneurship research is undertaken without considering the fundamental importance of the regional context. Other research has emphasized the role of social capital but there are substantial problems in empirically relating measures of social capital to regional economic development 
520 |a 1. Entrepreneurship, social capital, governance and regional economic development : an introduction / Charlie Karlsson -- 2. Entrepreneurship and innovation : Oxfordshire's high-tech economy-- firm survival, growth and innovation / Helen Lawton Smith and Saverio Romeo -- 3. The influence of clustering on MNE location and innovation in Great Britain / Gary A.S. Cook ... [et al.] -- 4. Industrial district hetereogeneity and performance : evidence from Italy / Nunzia Carbonara -- 5. Labor mobility and entrepreneurship : who do new firms employ? / Kristina Nyström -- 6. Women, entrepreneurial activity and territory : differences or myths? / José Luis Crespo-Espert, Antonio García-Tabuenca and Federico Pablo-Martí -- 7. Social capital and entrepreneurship : an empirical analysis of the role of social capital in self-employment / Soogwan Doh and Edmund J. Zolnik -- 8. A multidimensional perspective on entrepreneurship / Hans Westlund --  
520 |a 16. Local alternative development through a time-spatial lens : a case study of Ydre inspired by Hägerstrand / Per Assmo and Elin Wihlborg 
520 |a 9. The existence of pent-up demand for rural broadband services : an exploration / Peter L. Stenberg and Mitchell Morehart -- 10. Trust in secure public e-services : translating polices into use / Iréne Bernhard and Elin Wihlborg -- 11. Do different measures of economic growth lead to different conclusions? / Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö -- 12. Building rural entrepreneurship in Greece : lessons from lifelong learning programmes / Dimitrios G. Ierapetritis and Dimitrios Lagos -- 13. The location of business support programs : does the knowledge context matter? / Kingsley E. Haynes, Haifeng Qian and Sidney C. Turner -- 14. Technological adjustments in the textile, clothes and leather industries : an alternative pathway for competitiveness / Marisa Cesário and Maria Teresa de Noronha Vaz -- 15. Sámi reindeer herders in Finland : pulled to community-based entrepreneurship and pushed to individualistic firms / Leo Paul Dana and Jan Åge Riseth --