Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: The Birth, Growth and Demise of Entrepreneurial Firms

By Frederic Delmar

How and why are firms created, expanded and terminated by entrepreneurs in the knowledge intensive economy? The authors show these entrepreneurship processes are firmly embedded in a given social and economic context, that shapes the process by which some individuals discover entrepreneurial opportunities, creating new firms that sometimes grow to remarkable size, but more often stay mundane or eventually exit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848449909
• ISBN13: 9781848449909
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages