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Entrepreneurship and innovation networks

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In this paper, we give a general introduction to the notion of entrepreneurship and how it has many complex meanings. Entrepreneurs in new firms but also in incumbent firms have a key role in local, regional and national economic development by taking risks to get things done by developing new combinations of ideas and/or doing things differently. In view of this, two of the main questions that are dealt with are: (1) which features make structural differences in institutions and innovation networks remain invariant between decades, and (2) how knowledge about such features can be employed in policy at the national and the regional level. The research questions highlighted in this special issue relate to many pertinent national and regional policy issues. The most apparent concerns conditions conducive for entrepreneurship in the form of new firms and firm growth. In this paper, we also introduce the different contributors to this special issue.

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The 15th Uddevalla symposium was organised and sponsored by University West, Trollhättan, Sweden in co-operation with The University of Algarve, (CIEO), Faro, Portugal, The School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA, The Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS), The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden, The Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden, and The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Sweden. The best paper awards were financed by the municipality of Uddevalla, Sweden.

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Title: Entrepreneurship and innovation networks
Publication date: 01-08-2014
Published in: Small Business Economics / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-014-9542-z

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