Overview
- Studies the complex relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge competencies, considering industry dynamics
- Brings together leading international cases along the industry life cycle
- Provides solid theoretical reviews and robust empirical applications on knowledge competencies and human capital
Part of the book series: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics (ESID)
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About this book
Adopting evolutionary and behavioral approaches, this volume presents the latest research advances in knowledge competencies and human capital, as well as the changing structural dynamics, highlighting their links with entrepreneurial activities. It provides a set of international, benchmark case studies on initiatives (at the national, regional or individual level) geared towards entrepreneurship development. Focusing on diverse environments, systems and life cycle stages: young, established and transition industries and markets; as well as regions, it offers a valuable guide for scholars and practitioners interested in the interaction of entrepreneurship, knowledge competencies, human resources management and innovation.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Entrepreneurial and Knowledge Competences
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Innovative Networks and Entrepreneurial Activities
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Entrepreneurship for Change
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giuseppe Favretto is Full Professor of Management at the Department of Business Administration, University of Verona in Italy. He teaches Management, Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior at Verona, Padova and Urbino Universities. Previously, he was Vice-Rector of the University of Verona; founder and director of research centres (Youth Entrepreneurial Centre; Mobbing and Organizational Well-being Research Center; Assessment Centre). He has authored more than 340 publications on Entrepreneurship; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Well-being, Stress, and Mobbing; Family Business.
João Leitão is Assistant Professor (tenured) lecturing economics and entrepreneurship. He holds a Habilitation in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship; and a Ph.D. in Economics. He is associate researcher of the CEG-IST, University of Lisbon and external research fellow at Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He is author and co-author of scientific books on benchmarking, clusters, cooperation networks, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, innovation, competitiveness and quality of life. He won the National Prize of Innovation, 2017 and the Best Paper Award of the Interdisciplinary European Conference in Entrepreneurial Research – IECER 2012. His research work has been published in several indexed journals. His research interests include: entrepreneurship, innovation and public policies.
Uwe Cantner is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Jena, and heads the Chair of Microeconomics. Economics of Innovation, Evolutionary Economics, Industrial Economics. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Economics (part-time) at the University of Southern Denmark, and is the director of “The Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change", and the spokesperson for the DFG Graduate College “The Economics of Innovative Change”. Since 2015 he is part of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation - EFI) which advises the German Federal Government.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurship and the Industry Life Cycle
Book Subtitle: The Changing Role of Human Capital and Competences
Editors: Serena Cubico, Giuseppe Favretto, João Leitão, Uwe Cantner
Series Title: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89336-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89335-8Published: 17 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07743-3Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89336-5Published: 27 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2511-2023
Series E-ISSN: 2511-2031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 376
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Human Resource Management, Industrial Organization