Entrepreneurship and the Creation of Small Firms

Edited by Carin Holmquist, Professor and holder of Family Stefan Persson Chair in Entrepreneurship, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Johan Wiklund, The Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, US

• Contents:Preface1. Introduction Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund2. New Start-Up Firms Among Swedish Patent HoldersRoger Svensson3. Entrepreneurial Human Capital: A Real Options Perspective Karl Wennberg4. New Ventures’ Entry Strategies: A Comparison of Academic and Non-Academic Business StartupsSari Roininen and Håkan Ylinenpää5. How Human Capital Affects Self-Employment Among the Science and Technology Labor ForceJohan Wiklund and Frédéric Delmar and Karin Hellerstedt6. The Framing of New Business Concepts in Established Corporations: An Explanatory InvestigationChristian Czernich and Ivo Zander7. Refueling or Running Dry: Entrepreneurs’ Energetic Resources and the Start-Up ProcessAnders Landberg8. International Entrepreneurship and the Theory of EffectuationSvante Andersson9. Learning from Swedish Entrepreneurship ResearchCarin Holmquist and Johan WiklundIndex