Entrepreneurship research often pre-supposes similarities between national contexts despite evidence of extensive differences. This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation using a variety of data sources, methods and theories. The authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context underpinning this research is Sweden - a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be uniquely addressed with great concern for relevance and policy implications. Collectively, the contributors to this book show the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in the expansive setting that Sweden offers entrepreneurial ventures. They present engaging and significant work, and consider issues of great importance to scholars and policymakers alike.
1 Introduction by Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund 1
2 New Start-Up Firms among Swedish Patent Holders by Roger Svensson 13
3 Entrepreneurial Human Capital: a Real Options Perspective by Karl Wennberg 35
4 New Ventures' Entry Strategies: a Comparison of Academic and Non-Academic Business Startups by Sari Roininen and Hakan Ylinenpaa 65
5 How Human Capital Affects Self-Employment among the Science and Technology Labor Force by Johan Wiklund and Frederic Delmar and Karin Hellerstedt 91
6 The Framing of New Business Concepts in Established Corporations: an Explanatory Investigation by Christian Czernich and Ivo Zander 115
7 Refueling or Running Dry: Entrepreneurs' Energetic Resources and the Start-Up Process by Anders Landberg 149
8 International Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Effectuation by Svante Andersson 179
9 Learning from Swedish Entrepreneurship Research by Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund 197