Summary

Since 1996 the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK) have been rewarding research on small business and entrepreneurship with the FSF-NUTEK Award for research on small business and entrepreneurship. This award is given to leading scholars who have had the greatest impact in shaping the field of small business and entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship Research: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects looks back at these 10 years of rewarding outstanding research and contains state-of-the-art insights into the field of entrepreneurship and small business research. Contributors to this volume include Zoltan J. Acs, Howard E. Aldrich, David B. Audretsch, William J. Baumol, Giacomo Becattini, David Birch, Arnold C. Cooper, William Gardner, Ian C. MacMillan, Paul Reynolds, Charles Sabel and David Storey. Entrepreneurship Research: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects offers both the scholar and entrepreneur insights into the area of small business and entrepreneurship research. It should be of interest to a broad spectrum of academic fields and disciplines, ranging from management to economics, sociology, and political science to regional science.