The empirical context underpinning this research is Sweden – a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be uniquely addressed with great concern for relevance and policy implications.

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund 2. New Start-Up Firms Among Swedish Patent Holders Roger Svensson 3. Entrepreneurial Human Capital: A Real Options Perspective Karl Wennberg 4. New Ventures’ Entry Strategies: A Comparison of Academic and Non-Academic Business Startups Sari Roininen and Håkan Ylinenpää 5. How Human Capital Affects Self-Employment Among the Science and Technology Labor Force Johan Wiklund and Frédéric Delmar and Karin Hellerstedt 6. The Framing of New Business Concepts in Established Corporations: An Explanatory Investigation Christian Czernich and Ivo Zander 7. Refueling or Running Dry: Entrepreneurs’ Energetic Resources and the Start-Up Process Anders Landberg 8. International Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Effectuation Svante Andersson 9. Learning from Swedish Entrepreneurship Research Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund Index