Louis D Marino - Böcker

Anecdotal evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is a context in which individuals who see and/or experience the world differently can drive innovation and invention in ways that create wealth and enhance the public good.The chapters in this volume leverage comprehensive theoretical frameworks, empirical evidence, and interdisciplinary methodologies to advance our understanding of neurodiversity in entrepreneurship. The chapters employ diverse approaches and collectively establish how neurodivergent individuals create value within entrepreneurial contexts, moving beyond deficit-based conceptualizations and demonstrating how to harness cognitive differences as entrepreneurial strengths, while thoughtfully addressing associated challenges.The collection of prominent researchers in this volume focuses on diverse topics at the intersection of neurodiversity and entrepreneurship, but three primary theses emerge from their collected works. First, neurodivergent traits can enhance performance in the entrepreneurial context despite the unique challenges presented by various types of neurodiversity. Second, the neurodiversity of individual team members can improve collective performance beyond that of neurotypical teams through intentional team design and appropriate support structures. Finally, the integration of interdisciplinary methodologies, such as neuroscience, social identity theory, and entrepreneurship research, can enable us to examine unexplored intersections and better understand the implications of the neurobiological underpinnings of entrepreneurs' cognitions, as well as the intersection of topics like gender and neurodiversity in the entrepreneurial context. Taken together, these theses argue for positioning neurodiversity as not a side issue, but as one that is central to understanding modern entrepreneurship.Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth (AEFEG) provides an annual examination of the major current research theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship and its related disciplines of small business family business and population ecology as well as firm growth and emergence research.

There have been significant advances in entrepreneurship education pedagogy over the last two decades. However, a gap remains with many questions about exactly what we should be teaching in the classroom and how we should be teaching it. Stakeholders of all types – students, parents, employers, accrediting bodies, and government officials – are all looking for clarity, transparency, and a stronger sense of exactly what should encompass an entrepreneurship education.What should the outcome of entrepreneurship courses and programs be? What are we currently teaching? What should we be teaching? And, how should we be teaching it, are just some of the foundational questions addressed in The Age of Entrepreneurship Education Research. The collection of renowned entrepreneurship education researchers explores topics such as the theory of ideation, how to develop an expertise approach, how to reimagine entrepreneurship education to promote gender equality, how to activate an entrepreneurial mindset for neuro-diverse students, and more. The volume is bookended with an opening chapter that traces the evolution of entrepreneurship education research and a closing one that looks toward the future.This volume is of great interest to both teachers and students and practitioners in entrepreneurship, business and education.