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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters book

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters book

ByPanos G. Piperopoulos
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 29 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579948
Pages 238 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315579948
SubjectsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Piperopoulos, P. (2012). Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579948

In Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters, Panos Piperopoulos provides a comprehensive introduction to what entrepreneurship is all about, how and why entrepreneurs innovate and how innovation systems operate. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constitute the backbone of most economies, so the author examines their characteristics and the crucial role played by the owners and entrepreneurs who innovate to ensure the survival and continued growth of their firms. He also includes the particular phenomena that arise where the entrepreneurs are either female or from ethnic groups, or where the context is that of a developing region or country. The importance of co-operative strategic alliances and networks between firms is discussed, along with how these strengthen SMEs' competitiveness. The concept of open innovation has been proposed as a new paradigm for the management of innovation and the author presents a hypothetical model for enhancing the competitiveness and performance of SMEs by properly utilizing employees' creative potential, emotional intelligence, tacit knowledge and innovative ideas. The contemporary model of business clusters, involving partnerships with competitors, agents, universities, research centres and local, regional and national governments is discussed. The ways, means and methods through which SMEs' competitiveness and innovation can be enhanced within business clusters is illustrated by cases that identify four types of SMEs, that behave differently and play different roles in the networks and clusters of which they form a part, but all of whose performance and competitiveness is a function of their position and role in the wider scheme of things.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |4 pages

Part 1: The Concepts of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Systems of Innovation

chapter 1|16 pages

The Concept of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

chapter 2|11 pages

Innovation as a Strategy and a Competitive Advantage

chapter 3|18 pages

The Concept and the Characteristics of ‘Systems of Innovation’

chapter |4 pages

Part 1: References/Bibliography

part |4 pages

Part 2: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Evolution of Competition

chapter 4|14 pages

Characteristics of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

chapter 5|11 pages

The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise and the Entrepreneur

chapter 6|12 pages

Ethnic and Female Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners

chapter 7|16 pages

Business Networks, Strategic Alliances, Open Innovation and the SME

chapter 8|14 pages

Tacit Knowledge and Emotional Intelligence; the Intangible Values of SMEs The Creative and Innovative Power of the Human

chapter |16 pages

Part 2: References/Bibliography

part |4 pages

Part 3: Business Clusters, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Innovation

chapter 9|20 pages

The Concept of Business Clusters and their Life Cycle

chapter 10|22 pages

Business Clusters, SMEs, Innovation and Competitiveness

chapter 11|20 pages

A Two-Dimensional Model of Innovation and Business Clustering

chapter |4 pages

Part 3: References/Bibliography

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