Since the Great Recession of 2008, economic development efforts are increasingly focused
on fostering the generation of local businesses through entrepreneurship initiatives (Federal …

Why do new technically oriented firms start where they do, and how does location make a
difference? New technically oriented companies often seem to start in clusters of related …

Why do some entrepreneurial high-technology industrial clusters grow and prosper, while
others stagnate? Even after several decades of research, we have yet to find a definitive …

7. Conclusions The BITS database constructed for the Office of Advocacy of the US Small
Business Administration is uniquely suitable for testing new approaches to explaining …

Are all startups similarly affected by the survival benefits and drawbacks of locating in
geographic clusters? In this paper, we argue that prior theorizing may have missed …

Abstract Research Summary The economic center of gravity is shifting from mature markets
to emerging regions. This shift provides a good opportunity to broaden and deepen our …

Entrepreneurship enablers are the 'people behind the people'who create and build
businesses and social enterprises and thus help bring about economic and social …

Research on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) is still advancing as a concept that both
practitioners and scholars claim has advanced beyond other approaches to fostering or …

Just as the entrepreneurial economy is one in which entrepreneurial activity serves as a
driving force underlying economic performance, the entrepreneurial society provides the …

We noted in Chapter 1 that the Balboa Bay Conference was a convocation, a gathering of
scholars and active researchers to discuss the vital dynamic entrepreneurship plays in the …