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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the SME Sector

In: The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy

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  • Enno Masurel

    (Free University)

  • Kees Montfort

    (Free University)

  • Peter Nijkamp

    (Free University)

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has become a topical research issue in recent years. In particular, the role of the entrepreneur in innovation processes has received much attention, as is witnessed in the seminal review of Malecki (1997). Many studies in this field appear to refer to Schumpeter (1934) as an important stepping stone. Schumpeter views the entrepreneur as the key actor in the innovation process. In his view, the entrepreneur is a change actor who is permanently seeking new opportunities (see for a review also Nijkamp 2002). The wealth of empirical research in the past decades has clearly demonstrated that the ‘entrepreneurial attitude’ as an ‘animal spirit’ is a complex and ambiguous concept that can only properly be studied by thorough empirical research.

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  • Enno Masurel & Kees Montfort & Peter Nijkamp, 2002. "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the SME Sector," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Zoltan J. Acs & Henri L. F. Groot & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy, chapter 3, pages 47-63, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-24823-1_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24823-1_3
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