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Contents: 1. Introduction / Ulla Hytti, Robert Blackburn and Eddy Laveren -- 2. Innovation in family firms and SMEs: distinctive features and research challenges / Alfredo De Massis and Paola Rovelli -- 3. Speed of innovation and proximity in a rural context: the case of a manufacturing SME / Eva J.B. Jørgensen and Line Mathisen -- 4. Micro-firm learning communities in rural tourism: a multi-case study / David Aylward, Leana Reinl and Felicity Kelliher -- 5. The relations between social capital and growth of innovative early stage firms: a contextual approach / Valérie François, Christophe Lafaye and Matthieu Belarouci -- 6. Internationalized SMEs: the impact of market orientation and marketing capability on business performance / Sanna Joensuu-Salo, Kirsti Sorama and Salla Kettunen -- 7. Systematising higher education: a typology of entrepreneurship education / Torgeir Aadland and Lise Aaboen -- 8. Entrepreneurship in teacher education: conceptualisation and tensions / Karin Axelsson and Mats Westerberg -- 9. "We're the biggest student movement in Finland since the 1970s": a practice-based study of student entrepreneurship societies / Piritta Parkkari and Krista Kohtakangas -- 10. Narrating entrepreneurial identities: how achievement motivation influences restaurateurs' identity construction? / Magdalena Markowska and Friederike Welter -- Index.
Entrepreneurship education is an area of growing importance within entrepreneurship research. This book critically discusses innovation and entrepreneurship in new and varied contexts in Europe. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Education explores the need for researching innovation and learning in family firms, micro firms, SMEs and in rural and network contexts. The chapters offer new insights into the antecedents of business performance in SMEs by investigating social capital and marketing capabilities. The book includes a new typology for analysing entrepreneurship education programmes, discusses opportunities for embedding entrepreneurship in teacher education and explores entrepreneurship in the informal learning arenas in universities. This book includes a wide range of studies from different analytical and methodological perspectives and from various regional and industrial contexts. As such, it is a valuable tool for advanced students of European entrepreneurship. Researchers in entrepreneurship will also benefit from the up-to-date research analysis in this book