When should an entrepreneur reconsider?
Entrepreneurs, just like everyone else, enter 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? Is the technology feasible to develop? And when are there sufficient reasons to stick with an idea—or to rethink it?
Global transition requires regional innovation policy
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 changing the way people, organizations, and technology interact to address global challenges.
BOOK TIPS | When government mismanages innovation: researchers examine ‘Green Deals’
Mission-oriented innovation policies have gained a lot of traction among politicians and government officials, not least in Europe. In her 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.
BOOK TIP | Free Christmas Reading
Maybe you haven’t done all your Christmas reading yet? But don’t worry, we’ve listed six books that can be read for free via open access.
BOOK TIP | New thinking for modern regional development
In the book Rethinking Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, the authors address how entrepreneurship and regional development can be understood in a time of climate crisis, inequality and global change.
BOOK TIP: Scaling up for sustainability
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.
BOOK TIPS | Diversity for economic development
Diversity is about a variety of ideas, skills, education, ethnicity, professions, gender, language, culture, technologies and industry structures. In the anthology The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics, several Nordic and international researchers explore how diversity affects the economy, innovation and growth.
NEW BOOK | On the paradox society: “Companies need compass rather than map”
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.
BOOK TIP | 12 principles to succeed with your business
Entrepreneurship is often described as chaotic, uncertain and difficult 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 fundamental principles.
BOOK TIP | Climate, Inequality and Innovation: The Grand Challenges for a Sustainable Future
In the Handbook of Grand Challenges in Global Production and Innovation Networks, researchers shine a spotlight on the grand challenges of our time – and how global production and innovation networks are affected and help shape future sustainability.