Innovative Entrepreneurship in Action

This book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship. It explores the ways in which entrepreneurs learn and develop innovation-based businesses to drive increased regional competitiveness. Specifically, the contributions propose that sustainable innovation ecosystems booster innovative entrepreneurship and thus create a competitive advantage for smart and sustainable growth. It also examines the current state of entrepreneurship education, where the development of entrepreneurial abilities is considered a process of value creation-both economic and social-with the final aim to create both new start-ups and entrepreneurial mind-sets.Featuring theoretical approaches and empirical evidences, this title is appropriate for scholars, academics, students and policy makers in technology and innovation management, economics of innovation and entrepreneurship.

This book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship. It explores the ways in which entrepreneurs learn and develop innovation-based businesses to drive increased regional competitiveness. Specifically, the contributions propose that sustainable innovation ecosystems booster innovative entrepreneurship and thus create a competitive advantage for smart and sustainable growth. It also examines the current state of entrepreneurship education, where the development of entrepreneurial abilities is considered a process of value creation—both economic and social—with the final aim to create both new start-ups and entrepreneurial mind-sets.

Chapter 1. The Genome of Digital Entrepreneurship: A Descriptive Framework.- Chapter 2. Innovation Through Tradition: Leveraging the Past to Face New Challenges.- Chapter 3. Linking Business Model Mapping and Innovation with Intellectual Capital in technological start-ups.- Chapter 4. Facilitating Business startup launch: an interpretative framework based on Project Management.- Chapter 5. Corporate ‘Excelerators’: How Organizations can Speed-up Crowdventuring for Exponential Innovation.- Chapter 6. Financing the Development of Technology Startups.- Chapter 7. Entrepreneurability: Innovation Labs as engines of innovation capacity development.- Chapter 8. Circular Economy Innovative Entrepreneurship: a conceptual foundation.- Chapter 9. Encouraging Entrepreneurial Competence development in Italian University students: insights from the “Contamination Lab” cases.- Chapter 10. Catalyzing innovative entrepreneurship: an Italian case study.- Chapter 11. Supporting Innovative Entrepreneurship in southern Italy: the case of a public private technology district.