Digitization is an influential megatrend that is quickly and comprehensively transforming
economic spaces worldwide. Its disruptive power has not yet been fully developed but …

Public procurement is a vehicle by which governments can provide direct support to small
business. The public sector market is significant and attractive to suppliers of all sizes, yet …

Research Summary: Entrepreneurial ecosystems have recently emerged as a popular
concept within entrepreneurship policy and practitioner communities. Specifically, they are …

The role of regional governments in fostering opportunity entrepreneurship has received
increasing attention from both academics and practitioners. Drawing on research on …

In this study, we investigate the impact of information and communication technologies
(ICTs), represented by ICT capital services, on total entrepreneurial activity (TEA) in …

'Employability'plays a crucial role in informing labour market policy in the UK, the EU and
beyond. The concept of employability has been deployed to describe the objectives of the …

This paper contributes to empirical research on the role of regional policy for
entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a …

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.
Bridging the gap between theory and practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to …

Purpose–The main objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of environmental
factors on entrepreneurship at the Spanish regional level, using institutional economics as …

The aim of this paper is to identify regions with industrial clusters in Germany and to analyse
their entrepreneurial environment. A new index employing industry data supplied from the …