Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Research Handbooks in Business and Management series

Edited by David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, US and the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Oliver Falck, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Capital and Innovation, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich, Germany, Stephan Heblich, Associate Professor and Munk Chair of Eonomics, University of Toronto, Canada and Adam Lederer, DIW Berlin, Germany

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.

'An essential read for the students of entrepreneurship and for those who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career in the near future. This handbook can be considered to be a reference point in seeking knowledge about how various aspects of the environment affect the whole dynamics of innovation and therefore entrepreneurship, and how innovation can manifest itself in various forms of social good and social evil.'
– The International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation