When Gillette wanted to reach the Indian mass market, the company took an existing two-blade razor, adapted it, and tested the product on Indian students at MIT in the U.S. The tests looked promising. But once in India, the razor didn’t sell well. It turned out that one reason was that many Indian men used […]

Entrepreneurs, just like everyone else, approach new situations with preconceptions about how the world works and what will happen. But they often make decisions amid great uncertainty. Will customers want the product or service? Can the technology be developed? And when are there sufficient reasons to stick with an idea—or to rethink it? This is […]

Transformative innovation policy has taken on an increasingly prominent role in recent years. The underlying premise is that innovation can contribute not only to technological development and economic growth, but also to transforming the way people, organizations, and technology interact to address global challenges. The anthology Research Handbook on Regions and Transformative Innovation Policy focuses […]

Mission-oriented innovation policy has gained a lot of traction among politicians and government officials, not least in Europe. In the book Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021), researcher Mariana Mazzucato argues that traditional market solutions cannot be relied on to solve major societal challenges. However, there are critical voices in the scientific […]

In the book Rethinking Entrepreneurship and Regional Development , the authors – among them Rhiannon Pugh at Lund University – address how entrepreneurship and regional development can be understood in a time of climate crisis, inequality and global change. Moving between theory, practice and policy, the book explores how research in entrepreneurship, innovation and economic […]

How do businesses grow fast – and sustainably? This handbook provides an in-depth look at scaling up and high growth, two phenomena that have long been central to economic development and innovation but are still poorly understood. Bringing together researchers and practitioners, the book offers an up-to-date overview of the state of knowledge and new […]

Diversity is about a variety of ideas, skills, education, ethnicity, occupations, gender, language, culture, technologies and industry structures. In the anthology The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics, several Nordic and international scholars explore how diversity affects economics, innovation and growth – from the firm level to cities, regions and nations. The book […]

We live in a paradox society. This is the opinion of Björn Wikhamn, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, who has just published a new book on how companies and leaders can navigate in a time of conflicting demands. – We have been shaped by the logic of industrial society […]

Entrepreneurship is often described as chaotic, uncertain and hard to predict. In his book The Principles of Entrepreneurial Progress , entrepreneurship professor Greg Fisher shows that there are still ways to navigate. He boils down decades of research and practical experience into 12 basic principles that can be applied to everything from fast-growing tech companies […]

In the anthology Handbook of Grand Challenges in Global Production and Innovation Networks, researchers shine a spotlight on the major societal challenges of our time – from climate change, deforestation and desertification to technological development and social inequality. The book looks at how global production and innovation networks are affected by these issues and how […]

Public funding of small business research and development has played an important role in the United States since the 1940s. In the book Small Business Innovation in the Public Interest: A Study of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the authors examine how small businesses receiving public funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

Digitalization, climate challenges and tighter regulations have long put pressure on the accounting and auditing industry. And for smaller businesses, adapting has been particularly difficult. So how can SMEs in the industry meet the new demands of a rapidly changing world? This issue is discussed in the book Accounting and Auditing Small and Medium-Sized Practices […]