目次

PART I: Entrepreneurial and knowledge competencies.- Entrepreneurial Competencies: Comparing and Contrasting Models and Taxonomies.- Heterogeneity and the origin of the Founding Team: How the concepts relate and affect Entrepreneurial Behavior.- Entrepreneurial aptitude and gender-related stereotypes. A research on competencies, policies and practices to foster entrepreneurial culture in a less favoured environment.- Co-leadership and performance in technology-based entrepreneurial firms.- Human Capital, Organizational Competencies and Knowledge & Innovation Transfer: A case study applied to the Mining Sector.- Specific practices of Human Resource Management in the creation and development of micro and small firms, case studies in Portuguese firms.- PART II: Innovative networks and entrepreneurial activities.- The selective nature of innovator networks: from the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle.- The decline of innovation in the antibiotics industry and the global threat of antibiotic resistance; when entrepreneurial efforts are not enough.- Entrepreneurship success factors in high and low early stage entrepreneurship intensity countries.- Reasons for the almost complete absence of high-growth ambition and innovation activity of early-stage entrepreneurs in Brazil.- Hindering factors to Innovation. A Panel Data Analysis.- PART III: Entrepreneurship for Change.- Women Entrepreneurship in India: A work-Life Balance Perspective.- The pentagonal problem and the offshore energy sector in Portugal. Why does it matter?- Entrepreneurial Urban Revitalization.- Unconventional Entrepreneurship and the Municipality: The Role of Passion and Competencies.- Assessing entrepreneurial profiles: a study of transversal competence gaps in four European countries.