This path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth, knowledge production and spillovers, technology transfer, the organization of the firm, industrial policy, financing, small firms and start-ups, and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur. There is much in this Handbook that will prove to be informative and stimulating, especially for academics and post-graduate students in economics and management. Those starting a PhD in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.
Contents: PART I: THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1. Invention and Social Entrepreneurship: Social Good and Social Evil W. Baumol 2. Between Useful and Useless Innovation. The Entrepreneurial Role I. Kirzner 3. Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior M. Dejardin 4. Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur? M. van Praag PART II: INSTITUTIONS, INNOVATION, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5. Industrial Policy, Entrepreneurship and Growth P. Aghion 6. The Role of Patents and Licenses in Securing External Finance for Innovation D. Harhoff 7. Entry Regulation and Firm Entry: Evidence from German Reunification S. Prantl 8. Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship W. Kerr and R. Nanda 9. The New Argonauts and the Rise of Venture Capital in the 'Periphery' A. Saxenian and C. Sabel 10. Institutional Impact on the Outreach and Profitability of Microfinance Organizations K. Fogel, K. Lee and W. McCumber PART III: KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS, THE GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND GROWTH 11. Innovation in Cities: Classical and Random Urban Growth Models G. Duranton 12. Knowledge Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation - Revisited: A 20 Years Perspective on the Field on Geography of Innovation M. Feldman and G. Avnimelech 13. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth: Interdependencies, Irregularities and Regularities P. Braunerhjelm 14. New Knowledge: The Driving Force of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development B. Carlsson 15. Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Search for Knowledge Spillovers Z. Acs 16. Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth D. Audretsch PART IV: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, INNOVATION, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 17. Startup Firms from Research in US Universities R. Jensen 18. Universities as Research Partners: Entrepreneurial Explorations and Exploitations A. Link and C. Wessner 19. The Rise of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship: Managerial and Policy Implications D. Siegel 20. The Innovator's Decision: Entrepreneurship versus Technology Transfer D. Spulber 21. What Do Scientists Think About Commercialization Activities? W. Boente PART V: FIRMS AND INNOVATION 22. Small Firms and Innovation S. Parker 23. Start-ups in Innovative Industries - Causes and Effects M. Fritsch 24. Innovation and the Evolution of Industries. A Tale of Incentives, Knowledge and Needs U. Cantner and M. Guerzoni 25. How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate? G. Pellegrino, M. Piva and M. Vivarelli 26. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Institutions E. Stam and B. Nooteboom 27. The Propensity to Patent an Innovation: Comparing Entrepreneurial to Routinized Innovators A. Kleinknecht and G. van der Panne 28. Business-Public Research Collaborations, Entrepreneurship, and Market Orientation: Impact on Innovativeness in Regional Clusters T. Kretschmer and A. Eisingerich PART VI: THE MAKING OF THE ENTREPRENEUR 29. The Genetics of Entrepreneurship Nicos Nicolaou and Scott Shane 30. Entrepreneurship Education O. Falck, R. Gold, R and S. Heblich
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