Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the SME Sector

Enno Masurel, Kees Montfort and Peter Nijkamp
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Enno Masurel: Free University
Kees Montfort: Free University

Chapter 3 in The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy, 2002, pp 47-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Entrepreneurship has become a topical research issue in recent years. In particular, the role of the entrepreneur in innovation processes has received much attention, as is witnessed in the seminal review of Malecki (1997). Many studies in this field appear to refer to Schumpeter (1934) as an important stepping stone. Schumpeter views the entrepreneur as the key actor in the innovation process. In his view, the entrepreneur is a change actor who is permanently seeking new opportunities (see for a review also Nijkamp 2002). The wealth of empirical research in the past decades has clearly demonstrated that the ‘entrepreneurial attitude’ as an ‘animal spirit’ is a complex and ambiguous concept that can only properly be studied by thorough empirical research.

Keywords: Innovation Process; Human Resource Management; Success Factor; Marketing Activity; Critical Success Factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24823-1_3

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