Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship the birth, growth and demise of entrepreneurial firms /

How and why are firms created, expanded and terminated by entrepreneurs in the knowledge intensive economy? The authors show these entrepreneurship processes are firmly embedded in a given social and economic context, that shapes the process by which some individuals discover entrepreneurial opportu...

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Main Author: Delmar, Frédéric.
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Wennberg, Karl.
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham ; Northhampton : Edward Elgar, c2010.
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Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781848449909.xml
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-189) and index. 
505 0 |a 1. The role of entrepreneurship and new firm dynamics for economic development -- 2. The knowledge intensive sector : theoretical concerns, research : design and data -- 3. Birth of new firms : the geography connection with Karin Hellerstedt -- 4. Firm exit -- 5. De Novo and spinout start-ups : the organization connection -- 6. Firm growth -- 7. Concluding remarks. 
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650 0 |a Business failures. 
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