Includes chapters by new breed of European entrepreneurship researchers that offer a lesson that those values and world-views which have traditionally been the hallmark of the European approach, remain evident as the underpinnings of the new breed approach. This book highlights 'new breed' thinking and focuses on European entrepreneurship.

Europe and Entrepreneurship Research. (Johan Wiklund, Dimo Dimov, Jerome Katz, Dean Shepherd). Habitual Entrepreneurs Experiencing Failure: Overconfidence and the Motivation to Try Again. (Deniz Ucbasaran, Paul Westhead, Mike Wright). Meta-analysis as a Tool for Developing Entrepreneurship Research and Theory. (Andreas Rauch & Michael Frese). An Empirical Test of Systematic Process Differences between the Bursting of Innovative Venture Initiatives and the Shaping Forces of Imitative Venture Initiatives. (Mikael Samuelsson). The Mechanisms and Processes of Entrepreneurial Networks: Continuity and Change. (Sarah Drakopolou Dodd, Sarah Jack, Alistair Anderson). Characterising Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Business Services. (Mark Freel). A Resource-based View on Organic and Acquired Growth. (Alexander McKelvie, Johan Wiklund, Per Davidsson). The Early Growth of Research-Based Start-Ups. (Ans Heirman, Bart Clarysse). Dynamics of External Growth in SMEs: A Process Model of Acquisition Capabilities Emergence. (Carlo Salvato, Ugo Lassini, Johan Wiklund). Corporate Venture Capital and the Value-Added for Technology-Based New Firms. (Markku V. J. Maula, Erkko Autio, Gordon Murray). The Role of Learning in International Entrepreneurship. (Dirk De Clercq, Harry J. Sapienza, William R. Sandberg, Hans Crijns).