Entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic development : a study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) and Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)
by
 
Szirmai, Adam, 1946-

Title
Entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic development : a study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) and Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)

Author
Szirmai, Adam, 1946-

ISBN
9780199596515

Publication Information
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Physical Description
xix, 302 p. : il. ; 24 cm.

Series
UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
 
Studies in development economics.

Contents
Entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic development : an overview / Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Micheline Goedhuys -- Technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and development / David B. Audretsch and Mark Sanders -- Firm ownership and entrepreneurship / Alice H. Amsden -- Types of entrepreneurship and ecoomic growth / Erik Stam and André van Stel -- Can small firms innovate? The case of clusters of small producers in Northern Vietnam / Jaap Voeten, Job de Haan, and Gerard de Groot -- Innovation and microenterprise growth in Ethiopia / Mulu Gebreeyesus -- Enterpreneurship and the national system of innovation : what is missing in Turkey? / Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau -- Innovation policy, entrepreneurship, and development : a Finnish view / Otto Toivanen -- Promoting knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in India / Sunil Mani -- Incubators as tools for entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries / İ. Semih Akçomak -- Overcoming adversity in entrepreneurship-led growth : evidence from the Indian software sector / Suma Athreye.

Subject Term
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
 
Economic development -- Developing countries.
 
Entrepreneurship -- Developing countries.

Geographic Term
Developing countries -- Economic conditions.

Added Author
Szirmai, Adam, 1946-
 
Naudé, Wim A.
 
Goedhuys, Micheline.

Added Corporate Author
World Institute for Development Economics Research.
 
Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology.


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