Unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship : the potential for increasing capacities

1. Introduction to unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship: The potential for increasing capacities / Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson -- 2. Activating and redirecting regional potentials through innovation and entrepreneurship: An explorative study of European regions / Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen -- 3. Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators / Claudia Trillo -- 4. Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems / Helen Lawton Smith -- 5. Industrial policy in developed countries: A difficult but important policy area / Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli -- 6. Cultural policy for unlocking potentials of cultural activities in diverse regions / Giedrė Dzemydaitė -- 7. Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity in Italian regions / Roberto Antonietti and Chiara Burlina -- 8. Regional institutions and small business in Russia / Yulia V. Tsareva, Stepan P. Zemtsov and Vera A. Barinova -- 9. Hiring the first employee: An international exploration on the considerations leading to job creation by the solo self-employed / Albert Kraaij and Saskia Rademaker -- 10. How patenting and self-employment have affected us metropolitan growth / Gordon F. Mulligan -- 11. Automation of income support in the public social services: A case study of an innovation that is still struggling / Elin Wihlborg and Mariana S. Gustafsson -- 12. Businessization and collaboration of the citizen/non-profit sector in Japan / Masashi Imase -- 13. Complementary smart specialization in a key Polish region / Patryk Czerwony, Mirosław Miller and Tomasz Mroczkowski -- 14. Higher education and inclusion: A comparative study of immigrants' challenges, opportunities and strategies in Sweden and South Africa / Victoria Johansson and Deeqa Odaway -- Index.