Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and the Transformation of Regions

Preface

 

The contributions forming the different chapters in this book were selected through a referee process from papers that were presented and discussed at the fourteenth Uddevalla Symposium and the third International Symposium of Entrepreneurship of E-Lab, 16–18 June 2011,¹ held at the University of Bergamo, Italy. The overall theme was ‘Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and Transformation of Regions’. The purpose of the symposium was to contribute to an increased understanding of the role of entrepreneurial knowledge and technology for the transformation of regions by means of the entry, growth and exit of firms.

The organizers of this fourteenth Uddevalla Symposium were the University West, Trollhättan, Sweden, and the E-Lab at the ...