Analyzes various forms of partnership among socioeconomic actors to highlight the social conventions and entrepreneurial culture that connect and intensify the energies at the root of local dynamism. This book demonstrates how entrepreneurship can be...
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Analyzes various forms of partnership among socioeconomic actors to highlight the social conventions and entrepreneurial culture that connect and intensify the energies at the root of local dynamism. This book demonstrates how entrepreneurship can be fostered in order to support collective development
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-309) and index
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Context: The Knowledge Economy and Different Dynamics; 1. The knowledge economy: uncertainty, ambiguity and potential; 2. Differentiated entrepreneurship: regional and local disparities; PART II The Main Actors: Entrepreneurs, Organizations and Milieux - Their Capacity to Develop Knowledge; 3. Entrepreneurs; 4. The learning organization: information-gathering strategies used by small businesses; 5. The entrepreneurial milieu: the key to creating a distinct local identity
PART III The Factors: Information, Networks and Innovation - Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Entrepreneurship6. Information: the first necessary condition for reducing uncertainty and ambiguity; 7. Networks: a second necessary condition - the sharing of information leading to innovation; 8. Innovation: a sufficient condition; PART IV The Functioning of Local Entrepreneurship: Dynamism through Contagion; 9. Intelligence networking: developing a dynamic regional fabric; 10. Entrepreneurial contagion and knowledge acquisition; 11. Conclusion: towards a new theory of entrepreneurship
