Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 10 Issue 4

Exploring academic entrepreneurship: drivers and tensions of university‐based business

Mauri Laukkanen

It is increasingly expected that universities, besides research and teaching, should perform a third task as regional engines of innovation and economic growth. This paper…

Promoting entrepreneurship – changing attitudes or behaviour?

Poul Dreisler, Per Blenker, Kent Nielsen

The objective of this article is to analyse the Danish policies used to promote entrepreneurship during the last 30 years. The initiatives to promote entrepreneurship have been…

Strategic turnaround in a fragmented industry

Odd Jarl Borch, Bjørn Brastad

This study examines the range of business strategies chosen among small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in their adaptation to increased market integration and higher…

An exploratory study of women in micro enterprises: gender‐related differences

Karl W. Sandberg

This article assesses gender‐related differences in rural enterprises and examines implications for development of economic policy and services in a rural district of Sweden. The…

Multiple entrepreneurship among successful SMEs in peripheral locations

Mika Pasanen

Multiple entrepreneurship can offer an alternative approach to understanding business growth mechanisms. Despite the growing interest in entrepreneurs who have been involved in…

Knowledge‐intensive entrepreneurship and human capital

Henning Madsen, Helle Neergaard, John P. Ulhøi

This paper discusses human capital in connection with the entrepreneurial processes in knowledge‐based new ventures. Until recently, research on the founding of new ventures has…

Farm‐based entrepreneurs: what triggers the start‐up of new business activities?

Gry Agnete Alsos, Elisabet Ljunggren, Liv Toril Pettersen

This exploratory study combines three theoretical approaches to investigate why farmers start additional business activities: the rural sociology perspective, the opportunity…

SME strategic business networks seen as learning organizations

Ragnar Ahlström‐Söderling

This paper has its background in a research project that studied 12 cases of local development and co‐operation in the Swedish wood‐manufacturing sector during 1997‐2000 and 20…