Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Education

Edited by Ulla Hytti, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Turku, Finland, Robert Blackburn, Professor, University of Liverpool Management School, UK and Eddy Laveren, Professor, University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School, Belgium

• Contents:Foreword by Silke Tegtmeier1. Introduction: Innovation and education matters in European entrepreneurship researchUlla Hytti, Robert Blackburn and Eddy Laveren 2. Innovation in family firms and SMEs: Distinctive features and research challengesAlfredo De Massis and Paola Rovelli 3. Speed of innovation and proximity in a rural context: The case of a manufacturing SMEEva J.B. Jørgensen and Line Mathisen 4. Micro firm learning communities in rural tourism: a multi-case studyDavid Aylward, Leana Reinl and Felicity Kelliher 5. The relations between social capital and growth of innovative early stage firms: a contextual approachValérie François, Christophe Lafaye and Matthieu Belarouci6. Internationalized SMEs: The impact of market orientation and marketing capability on business performanceSanna Joensuu-Salo, Kirsti Sorama and Salla Kettunen 7. Systematising higher education: a typology of entrepreneurship educationTorgeir Aadland and Lise Aaboen 8. Entrepreneurship in teacher education: conceptualisation and tensionsKarin Axelsson and Mats Westerberg9. ‘We’re the biggest student movement in Finland since the 1970s!’ A practice-based study of student entrepreneurship societiesPiritta Parkkari and Krista Kohtakangas 10. Narrating entrepreneurial identities: How achievement motivation influences restaurateurs’ identity construction Magdalena Markowska and Friederike Welter Index