Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Local Development

This book draws together leading academics in order to provides a state-of-the-art overview of the key challenges to entrepreneurship in Europe. Relationships between entrepreneurship, competitiveness and local development areassessed from various perspectives, and the important role played by entrepreneurs and small firms in fostering economic development in emerging as well as in developed countries is explored. Topics explored within these parameters include venture capital, start-ups, entry barriers, the role of gender, refugee entrepreneurship and technological entrepreneurship.Iandoli, Luca is the author of 'Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Local Development', published 2007 under ISBN 9781847203274 and ISBN 1847203272.