ABSTRACT
There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission began implementing Smart Specialisation Strategy, a place-based strategy of growth, regional transformation and new industrial policy with collective entrepreneurial discovery processes (EDP) at its core. This volume approaches the mystery of entrepreneurial discovery; that is, how relevant knowledge is created, converted and shared in a process of discovery.
These essays bring together scholars from economics, geography, sociology, organisation studies, innovation studies, and complexity theory, offering new approaches to overcome the limitations of place-based development and suggesting improved methods leading to growth.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|84 pages
Entrepreneurial discovery processes and their institutional challenges
chapter 2|19 pages
Entrepreneurial discovery processes in different regional contexts
chapter 3|20 pages
The institutional worlds of entrepreneurial discovery
chapter 4|18 pages
Entrepreneurial discovery processes through a wicked game approach
part II|84 pages
Collaborative micro-level arrangements creating new knowledge
chapter 6|21 pages
The bond, the bridge and the broker
part III|74 pages
Macro-level impacts from micro-level solutions
chapter 10|24 pages
Moving beyond related variety
part IV|54 pages
Lessons from systems of innovation
chapter 14|16 pages
Historical examples of entrepreneurial discovery
part V|17 pages
Summary and conclusions