Books in the Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Economic Growth series

This is the 2nd edition of Technological Innovation. Profiting from technological innovation requires scientific and engineering expertise, and an understanding of how business and legal factors facilitate commercialization. This volume presents a multidisciplinary view of issues in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.

The complex global environment for entrepreneurship has experienced significant change during the past decade. University based entrepreneurship is at the nexus of this environment. Students and faculty of entrepreneurship are uniquely positioned as agents in the movement of discovery and innovation.

Examines the environmental entrepreneur and the role of property rights in encouraging eco entrepreneurship, and uses micro economics to assess whether eco entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from more general entrepreneurship.

This volume addresses the challenges that can arise when individuals from technical, business, and legal environments must converge on the goal of commercialization. Specifically, it brings together studies from organizational behavior, marketing, economic, and sociological perspectives on commercialization of university technologies.

Profiting from technological innovation is a key strategic challenge in technology-intensive industries. This book presents a multidisciplinary view of issues in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Include papers that represent some of the leading work on intellectual property and address the question of how to create incentives to develop new technologies and how to protect those technologies once developed from theft. This title contains papers that ask when valuable property might be developed even under weak ownership conditions.

The performance of economies depends upon entrepreneurship. Yet, little is understood of the institutional structure that supports entrepreneurship or of the economic and sociological factors that encourage entrepreneurial activity. The papers in this volume represent research on these issues.

Presents a series of perspectives that evaluate the merits of and potential for establishing institutionalized social valuation protocols within university settings. This title offers a comprehensive overview of the literature that addresses issues related to assessing the social value of university innovations.

Presents the studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at social and technological factors affecting mid-size businesses, including: education; job training; health policy; and, information technology.

Editorial Objectives This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship, innovation and the impact on economic performance. Topicality Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth (ASEIEG) provides a timely and relevant discussion and exploration of entrepreneurial topics, their impact, and ties to key values in today's society, such as social, environmental and economic issues and challenges. Topics range from aspects of entrepreneurial behavior to determinants of entrepreneurial research with contributions from top scholars across the US and the globe. Key Benefits Organization and history of series allows a rich, multi faceted foundation for entrepreneurial topics in a rapidly changing information age. Research can be disseminated in a clear and effective manner to promote communication between the business and academic communities and to foster entrepreneurship within the society. Key Audiences Key audiences range from private industry to policy officials to researchers and educators. The role and understanding of entrepreneurship, the implications for current critical conditions and sustained vibrant economies, is rapidly growing. This series provides each with a highly useful blend of topics and scholarly perspectives. Coverage The series includes related articles and papers, frequently driven by organized colloquia and other business/academic exchange, with interdisciplinary perspectives including those of economics, marketing, law, finance, management, history, science, higher education administration and sociology. Coverage includes but is not limited to: Institutional entrepreneurial development Intellectual property concerns, patenting, and other property rights issues Environmental entrepreneurship and innovation Innovation within and across firms Effect of government regulation and tax policies Organizational factors, market structure effects and marketing strategies Entrepreneurship programmes and other educational activities Relative performance of entrepreneurial firms.

Presents studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at reinventing government and the problem of bureaucracy.

Education and Quality of the American Labor Force

Part of a series on research in community and mental health.

Includes a series of papers which examine the contributions of entrepreneurship education on the performance of graduates. Using survey data for 2,484 entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship graduates, this work provides an analysis which indicates that entrepreneurship education contributes to risk taking, and the formation of new ventures.

Contains some of the research on university-based technology transfer, intellectual property issues, and the entrepreneurship program/technology transfer interface. Eleven of the papers are from the Colloquium on Entrepreneurship Education and Technology Transfer held at the White Stallion Ranch, Tucson, Arizona, January 21-23, 2005.

Part of a series of studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at legel, regulatory and policy changes that affect entrepreneurial midsize firms.