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Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development

Luísa Carvalho (Universidade Aberta, Portugal & CEFAGE, Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 878
ISBN13: 9781466695672|ISBN10: 1466695676|EISBN13: 9781466695689
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9567-2
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The emergence of small businesses within a community or country helps to establish that region’s role in the global economy. As economic achievement is vital to the overall development of a region, a framework for entrepreneurship success and innovation is necessary to keep up with the competitive global market.

The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development is a critical reference source for current research on entrepreneurship and its impact on regional development. Featuring comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics relating to social entrepreneurship, internationalization, business policies, innovation, sustainability, and higher education, this handbook of research is an essential resource for practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students interested in the effect that entrepreneurial success has on a particular region.

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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development (AEGDDRD) Book Series
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Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
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Preface
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Chapter 1
Inna Sousa Paiva (Lusófona University of Humanities and Technology, Portugal)
Entrepreneurial firms commonly become family small businesses. This study aims to highlight the financial strategy underlying the development of smaller family companies. A brief introduction about the definition and role of the...
The Financial Development of Portuguese Entrepreneurial Businesses
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Chapter 2
Sandra Pinto (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), Luísa Cagica Carvalho (Universidade Aberta, Portugal & CEFAGE, Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Sandra Nunes (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal)
This research intends to contribute with some insights towards a better understanding of Portuguese KIBS. And analyze their propensity to innovation when comparing with service sector. The chapter firstly presents a literature review...
Innovation Propensity in Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS): A Comparative Study in Portuguese Service Sector
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Chapter 3
Luís Carvalho (European Institute for Comparative Urban Research, The Netherlands), Nuno Camacho (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Gonçalo Amorim (MIT Portugal, Portugal), José Paulo Esperança (BGI – IUL MIT Portugal Accelerator, Portugal)
This chapter explores the tenets and the practice of a transnational initiative to promote local entrepreneurial growth: the Building Global Innovators (BGI) model, a startup accelerator based in Lisbon (Portugal) and in Cambridge...
Transnational Acceleration of Local Startups: Portugal's Building Global Innovators (BGI) Model
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Chapter 4
M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández (University of Extremadura, Spain)
The research question in this chapter is whether clusters are good entrepreneurial ecosystems to enhance social and responsible behavior in SMEs at regional level. We will address institutional efforts in Corporate Social...
Clusters as Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs
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Chapter 5
Nuno Teixeira (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), Bruno Rafael (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), Pedro Pardal (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal)
One of the main characteristics of current business environment is related to internationalization of companies and economies, where competitors from different countries with diverse cultures and production factors, easily clash for...
Internationalization and Financial Performance: A success case in Portugal
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Chapter 6
Yannis Pierrakis (Kingston University, UK)
This chapter adds to the growing literature from recent years on innovation finance, innovation systems, and regional economic policy. Although the role of business has been seen as critical within the regional innovation system, the...
Public Policies and Public Programs with a Regional Impact in Promoting Entrepreneurship: The Case Study of Government Backed Venture Capital Schemes in the UK
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Chapter 7
Monica Cerdan-Chiscano (Turismo Sant Ignasi, Spain), Antoni Olivé (University Ramon Llull, Spain), Ana Isabel Jimenez-Zarco (Open University of Catalonia, Spain), Joan I. Torrent-Sellens (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
In this chapter, we will discuss the role of knowledge as a strategic resource for companies. Universities focus on knowledge development as the main result of their research groups activities; but really few exploit this intangible...
Barriers to Academic Entrepreneurship in Knowledge Based Spinoffs: Evidence from Spanish Research Groups
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Chapter 8
María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández (University of A Coruña, Spain)
This chapter studied the institutional influence associated to quality practices in hotels. The aim was to interpret whether it was the normative, coercive or mimetic pressures (Institutional pressures) that influenced the three...
The Influence of Institutional Environment on Quality Practices and Its Impact on Regional Development
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Chapter 9
Tebarek Lika Megento (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), Christian Kesteloot (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Drawing on insights from social network theory, the socio-economic and cultural dimensions of intra-ethnic business networks are examined for the Gurage, an ethnic group in Ethiopia. This study also examines the extent of Chinese...
Intra-Ethnic Business Networks in the Gurage Footwear Industry in Ethiopia
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Chapter 10
Elisa Giacosa (University of Turin, Italy)
The focus of this chapter is to provide scientific evidence to luxury fashion businesses for competing in a competitive global market, providing for further research opportunities of the innovation strategy. Thanks to a qualitative...
Innovation in Luxury Fashion Businesses as a Means for the Regional Development
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Chapter 11
Maria da Conceição Rego (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Maria Raquel Lucas (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Isabel Vieira (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Carlos Vieira (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
In the 1980s, the renewal of academic interest in entrepreneurship as a factor of development highlighted the role of entrepreneurs in creating jobs and driving innovation. In the new century, fostering entrepreneurship became a...
The Promotion of Entrepreneurship in Low Density Regions: The Case of the Agency for the Regional Development of Alentejo (ADRAL)
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Chapter 12
Chi Maher (St Mary's University Twickenham, UK)
This chapter provides an important perspective on how public policies impact small third sector social enterprises in UK regions. There is limited research that has explored the how government policies are impacting on small regional...
Public Policies Impact on Third Sector Social Enterprises in UK Regions
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Chapter 13
Katarína Petríková (Matej Bel University, Slovakia), Kamila Borseková (Matej Bel University, Slovakia)
Nowadays, stakeholders from public, private and non-profit sectors acting in various types of aggregation in territories and are trying to find effective ways to the development. The aim of the chapter is to identify and explain the...
How do Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Influence Growth and Development?: The Case of the Slovak Republic
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Chapter 14
Deniz Zaptcioglu Celikdemir (Yasar University, Turkey), Alev Katrinli (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey)
The chapter presents the impact of entrepreneurial sustainable universities in regional development by considering the effect of institutional approach. The aim of the chapter is to explain the concept of an entrepreneurial...
The Impact of Entrepreneurial Sustainable Universities in Regional Development
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Chapter 15
Hugo Pinto (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Ana Rita Cruz (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal), Helena de Almeida (University of Algarve, Portugal)
This chapter underlines contributions that Science and Technology Studies (STS) can give to the analysis of the knowledge transfer process and academic entrepreneurship. The central objective of the chapter is to understand the...
Academic Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer Networks: Translation Process and Boundary Organizations
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Chapter 16
Beatriz Corchuelo (University of Extremadura, Spain), Francisco J. Mesías (University of Extremadura, Spain)
The main objective of this chapter is to analyze which are the barriers perceived by Extremaduran firms and how these barriers affect their willingness to perform innovative activities or to be innovative firms. We have used data...
Innovation in Extremadura: Opportunity for Companies or Obstacle for their Development?
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Chapter 17
António Moreira (DEGEI, GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
The chapter presents an entrepreneurial perspective to rural tourism. It is based on the utilization of endogenous resources that exist within a rural region, and leads to a group of business opportunities related to tourism...
Entrepreneurial Tourism: The Creation of Business Opportunities in the ADRIMAG Region, Portugal
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Chapter 18
Nadia Simoes (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal), Sandrina B. Moreira (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), Nuno Crespo (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal)
Self-employment is increasingly an attractive labor market option worldwide. In a European context, Portugal is well-known for displaying one of the highest rates of self-employment. This study explores the main determinants of the...
Determinants of Self-Employment Entry: Evidence from Portugal
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Chapter 19
Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez (University of Extremadura, Spain), M. Luisa Pajuelo-Moreno (University of Sevilla, Spain)
Two lines of research focus on this chapter: University Social Responsibility and entrepreneurship. Once Univesrities are aware of the importance of introducing socially responsible actions, we refer to the need of Universities to...
How Spanish Universities are Promoting Entrepreneurship through Your Own Lines of Teaching and Research?
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Chapter 20
José Manuel García-Gallego (University of Extremadura, Spain), Antonio Chamorro‑Mera (University of Extremadura, Spain)
The main objective of this chapter was to determine the variables that explain and moderate the intention to purchase regional a specific product, in particular, wine. Some of the selected variables were directly related to regional...
The Region-of-Origin Effect: Implications for Regional Development Policies
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Chapter 21
Kijpokin Kasemsap (Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand)
This chapter aims to explore the roles of entrepreneurship and internationalization in global business, thus illustrating the theoretical and practical overviews of entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, and...
Exploring the Roles of Entrepreneurship and Internationalization in Global Business
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Chapter 22
Susana Bernardino (Politécnico do Porto, Portugal), José Freitas Santos (Politécnico do Porto, Portugal), José Cadima Ribeiro (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to a better understanding of the link between social entrepreneurship and institutional environment in Portugal. A quantitative approach is used in the study, with primary data collected...
Social Entrepreneurship: Does Institutional Environment Make a Difference?
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Chapter 23
João M. S. Carvalho (CICS.NOVA.UMinho/UNICES/ISMAI, Portugal)
This chapter provides a summarized and objective review over the relationships among innovation, social innovation, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, new business models (NBM), and product (good, service, idea) value and...
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Porto Region
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Chapter 24
Jorge Gonçalves (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Inês Vilhena da Cunha (Researcher at Inteli, Portugal)
This chapter aims to describe and reflect on the experience developed in a metropolitan territory that ambitiously wanted to articulate entrepreneurship, creativity and urban governance. In spaces marked by economic and social crisis...
Boosting Entrepreneurism as a Product of Urban Creativity and Governance: The Almada Idea Laboratory Project
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Chapter 25
Sara Calvo (Middlesex University, UK)
Despite the increased attention paid to enterprise and entrepreneurship education in recent years, there exist limited bodies of research on the extent to which higher education institutions support and promote social enterprises....
Connecting Social Enterprise and Higher Education: Universities as Drivers in the Support of Social Enterprises in the United Kingdom
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Chapter 26
Alberto Ferraris (University of Turin, Italy), Stefano Leucci (University of Trento, Italy), Stefano Bresciani (University of Turin, Italy), Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)
In the current global scenario, the relevance and the importance of social innovation becomes critical in order to face this situation of crisis. For its close link with the local area in which it takes place, social innovation is...
An Innovation Ecosystem beyond the Triple Helix Model: The Trentino's Case
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Chapter 27
Filipa Amorim (MIT Portugal, Portugal), Ricardo Gomes (MIT Portugal, Portugal), Hang Dao (University of Lisbon, Portugal & Aalto University, Finland), Miguel Carvalho (MIT Portugal, Portugal), Carlos Silva (MIT Portugal, Portugal), Paulo Ferrão (MIT Portugal, Portugal), Manuel Correia Guedes (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Manuela Almeida (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
This chapter gives an overall summary of the challenges faced by European countries regarding the adoption of nZEBs, particularly focusing in the training needs in the Southern Mediterranean countries, and on the experience reached...
The Drive towards Near Zero Energy Buildings through Professional Training in Southern Europe: The SouthZEB Project
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Chapter 28
Alexandra Marisa Bastos Carvalheira (University of Aveiro, Portugal), António Moreira (DEGEI, GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Internationalization has been adopted by many companies, regardless of size, to boost their growth. Although the Uppsala model and the network approach have been extensively used to analyze how small firms internationalize their...
Searching for Opportunities and Trust in International Markets: Entrepreneurial Perspective of a Traditional Industry SME
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Chapter 29
Agnieszka Barcik (University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland), Piotr Dziwiński (University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland)
The main impetus of entrepreneurship development comes undoubtedly at present from innovation based on knowledge, education as well as research and development activities. In Poland, as in all other countries of the European Union...
Innovative Entrepreneurship in Poland within Cooperation of the Universities with Enterprises
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Chapter 30
Maria Ortelinda Barros Gonçalves (University of Porto, Portugal), Paula Cristina Remoaldo (University of Minho, Portugal), Paulo J. A. da Cunha (University of Porto, Portugal), Nair Silva (University of Porto, Portugal)
For countries like Portugal, with limited prospects in terms of employment, one of the solutions involves emigration and the desire of part of the Portuguese people to establish enterprises in other countries, England being one of...
Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Study Case of Portuguese in London
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Chapter 31
Inmaculada Pastor-Gosálbez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain), Ana Isabel Blanco (Universidad de León, Spain), Adelina Rodríguez (Universidad de León, Spain), Ana Acosta (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain), Paloma Pontón (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain), Angel Belzunegui-Eraso (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
In this chapter we discuss the policies for fostering entrepreneurship at Spanish universities and how these policies may be related with the low participation of women in university spin-offs. Using our results from the first part...
Fostering Entrepreneurship at the Spanish University: Does Gender Matter?
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Chapter 32
Orlando Lima Rua (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal)
The main goal of this article is the joint analysis of the dimensions of the entrepreneurial potential, students' entrepreneurial characteristics and gender of the Portuguese Polytechnic higher education students. For this...
Business Creation Based on Entrepreneurial Potential, Students' Characteristics and Gender
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Chapter 33
Miguel Rocha De Sousa (Department of Economics & Center for Research in Political Science (CICP-UE) & Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics (CEFAGE-UE),University of Évora, Portugal), Mary Ann Docuyanan (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)
This chapter provides five comprehensive cases of social entrepreneurship and innovation in Southeast Asia and its role on development. We start from a theoretical innovation model based on differential inclusions mathematical theory...
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Southeast Asia and its Role on Development: Five Cases and an Innovation Model
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Chapter 34
Tânia Gonçalves (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal), Sofia Gouveia (CETRAD, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal), Mário Sérgio Teixeira (CETRAD, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal)
The aim of this chapter is to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship, the internationalization of firms and regional development. It will present a literature review of the internationalization...
Entrepreneurship, Firm Internationalization and Regional Development
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Chapter 35
Maria João Sousa Lima (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal), Luísa Cagica Carvalho (Open University, Portugal)
Collaboration between companies, especially for SMEs, can increase their ability to compete in new global markets. The emergence of new wine-producing countries over recent decades allows to evaluate its impact on the performance of...
Networks Collaboration in Wine Sector SME: A Study Applied to a Portuguese Wine Region
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About the Contributors
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