Entrepreneurship and regional development : local processes and global patterns

edited by Charlie Karlsson (professor of the economics of technological change and director of CISEG (Centre for Innovation Systems, Entrepreneurship and Growth), Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping University, Jonkoping, Sweden, professor of industrial economics and organization, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden and guest professor of economics, University West, Trollhattan, Sweden), Börje Johansson (professor of economics, Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping University and director of CESIS (Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), Roger R. Stough (NOVA endowed chair, Eminent Scholar and professor of public policy, and vice president for research and economic development, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)

1. Introduction / Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough -- 2. Globalization and the emergence of the entrepreneurial society / David B. Audretsch. -- 3. New firm formation and economic development in a globalizing economy / Sierdjan Koster and Charlie Karlsson -- 4. Entrepreneurship and local growth : a comparison of the US and Sweden / Benny Borgman and Pontus Braunerhjelm -- 5. Gibrat's law reconsidered : a creativity perspective / Zoltan J. Acs and Catherine Armington -- 6. International linkages and entrepreneurship in media clusters : evidence from the UK / Gary A.S. Cook and Naresh R. Pandit -- 7. Household migration and attractiveness in consumer service supply / Charlotta Mellander and Johanna Palmberg -- 8. Knowledge intensive business services as gazelles : implications of size on innovation / Johanna Nählinder -- 9. The community entrepreneur as a facilitator of local economic development / Lars Rønning, Elisabet Ljunggren and Johan Wiklund -- 10. Innovation and entrepreneurship in Danish regional policy / Andreas P. Cornett -- 11. Modeling just-in-time manufacturing in a vertically integrated industry / Ho Yeon Kim -- 12. The innovation and productivity effect of foreign takeover of national assets / Börje Johansson, Hans Lööf and Bernd Ebersberger -- 13. Creative industries and regional economic development - the example of public supported regional film centres in Sweden per assmo -- 14. Local patterns of growth in a global perspective : a territorial scenario of an enlarged Europe / Roberta Capello.

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Year of publication:	2010
Other Persons:	Karlsson, Charlie (ed.) ; Johansson, Börje (ed.) ; Stough, Roger (ed.)
Institutions:	Uddevalla Symposium <8, 2005, Uddevalla> (issuing body)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
Subject:	Regionalentwicklung \| Regional development \| Unternehmer \| Entrepreneurs \| Globalisierung \| Globalization \| Regionalwissenschaft \| Regional science \| Welt \| World \| Entrepreneurship \| Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]