Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson ()

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Abstract: Illuminating 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9781800371231
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Increasing Capacities , pp 1-13

Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson

Ch 2 Activating and redirecting regional potentials through innovation and entrepreneurship: an explorative study of European regions , pp 14-36

Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen

Ch 3 Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators , pp 37-62

Claudia Trillo

Ch 4 Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems , pp 63-79

Helen Lawton Smith

Ch 5 Industrial policy in developed countries: a difficult but important policy area , pp 80-109

Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli

Ch 6 Cultural policy for unlocking potentials of cultural activities in diverse regions , pp 110-132

GiedrÄ— DzemydaitÄ—

Ch 7 Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity in Italian regions , pp 133-156

Roberto Antonietti and Chiara Burlina

Ch 8 Regional institutions and small business in Russia , pp 157-184

Yulia V. Tsareva, Stepan Zemtsov and Vera Barinova

Ch 9 Hiring the first employee: an international exploration on the considerations leading to job creation by the solo self-employed , pp 185-217

Albert Kraaij and Saskia Rademaker

Ch 10 How patenting and self-employment have affected US metropolitan growth , pp 218-246

Gordon Mulligan

Ch 11 Automation of income support in the public social services: a case study of an innovation that is still struggling , pp 247-269

Elin Wihlborg and Mariana S. Gustafsson

Ch 12 Businessization and collaboration of the citizennon-profit sector in Japan , pp 270-296

Masashi Imase

Ch 13 Complementary smart specialization in a key Polish region , pp 297-319

Patryk Czerwony, Mirosław Miller and Tomasz Mroczkowski

Ch 14 Higher education and inclusion: a comparative study of immigrants challenges, opportunities and strategies in Sweden and South Africa , pp 320-344

Victoria Johansson and Deeqa Odaway

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