Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship

Back to School: Triangulating City Entrepreneurship

City entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial attitude and behavior of city authorities, can substantially be promoted by triangulation, i.e. by opening the city-citizen relationship for communities of knowledge such as universities. This paper reports on an experiment in Amsterdam, where civil servants, with their inherent focus on 'feasible' solutions, were co-learning with Master's students and...

Bringing Entrepreneurship and innovation into the theory of Value

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywoodmovie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. . . . When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their...

Bringing entrepreneurship back in Explaining the industrial dynamics of Hong Kong with special reference to the textile and garment industry

Applies Kirzner’s concept of entrepreneurship to explain the economic success of Hong Kong. The city economy possesses neither natural resources, nor sophisticated technologies, and yet it has successfully developed into one of the most prosperous economies in East Asia. This study argues that Hong Kong’s industrial dynamism relies mainly on a large number of adaptive entrepreneurs who are cons...

Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship

Introduction to Academic Entrepreneurship

The aim of the chapter is to provide practitioners and researchers, who wish to investigate academic entrepreneurship in details, with the basic characteristics of the phenomenon as an introduction to further exploration. As university entrepreneurship is rooted in the broader entrepreneurship theory, the investigation encompassed a set of definitions, types, and processes pertaining to both in...