Understanding the dynamics of global entrepreneurship

Extract

This book is a collection of 32 articles published between 2008 and 2014 written by the noted entrepreneurship scholar, Professor Zoltán J. Ács of London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and George Mason University, USA. Ács is featured as one of the top ten leading scholars in the inter-disciplinary research area of entrepreneurship, as shown on the Google Scholar profiles which carry the label ‘entrepreneurship’. As the subtitle suggests, the book presents a collection of his papers published in different scholarly journals during his affiliation with George Mason University. Most of the articles re-published in this anthology are collaborative work, where his co-authors are based in various business schools or academic departments in the USA and Europe. The introduction provides an overview of the themes, broader theoretical frameworks, and key findings. Ács also describes the genesis of entrepreneurship theories in the last 50 years, more particularly, the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, and the topologies of entrepreneurship that include individuals, firms, economies, and societies. He then identifies two key questions while discussing Schumpeterian and Romerian (named after Joseph Schumpeter and Paul Michael Romer, respectively) theoretical frameworks of entrepreneurship: Where do entrepreneurial opportunities come from? and Why is knowledge spillover important in entrepreneurship theory?