Audretsch D.B. et al (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edward Elgar Pub – 2011, 528 p.
ISBN: 1848440871, 9781848440876This 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 Ph.D. in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.Edited by David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor of Economic Development, Indiana University, Bloomington, US, Honorary Professor, WHU, Germany and Visiting Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Oliver Falck, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Capital and Innovation, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich, Germany, Stephan Heblich, Lecturer, Economics Division, School of Management, University of Stirling, UK and Adam Lederer, DIW Berlin, Germany