Frontmatter -- Contents -- Universities, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and sustainability: An overview -- Part I: Universities and entrepreneurial ecosystems -- Chapter 1 Entrepreneurial ecosystems, learning regions, and the role of universities -- Chapter 2 The dark side of the university’s...

There is an increasing concern for the notion of ‘embeddedness’ of economic activity; yet the conceptualization of the concept and its operationalization remain underdeveloped. First, embeddedness may concern, on the one hand, the structure of relations that tie economic actors together...

Conceptualizing proximity as a mainly geographically and more or less permanently anchored phenomenon has been shown to be insufficient in clusters; the proximity between firms also has a temporary and relational character when coupled with globalization. This paper aims to contribute to this...