Bookseries

ESU network provides this important bookseries that is designed to highlight the unique characteristics and rich variety of European research in entrepreneurship. It provides powerful lenses to help identify and understand the importance of European cultural roots within the international entrepreneurship landscape.

3nd volume from ESU 2008:
Entrepreneurship Research In Europe
Evolving Concepts and Processes

Edited byOddJarl Borch, Alain Fayolle, Paula Kyrö & Elisabet Ljunggren,
Published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2011

2nd volume from ESU 2006:
The Dynamics Between Entrepreneurship, Environment and Education
Edited by Alain Fayolle & Paula Kyrö, Published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2008

1st volume from ESU 2002:
Entrepreneurship Research in Europe: Perspectives and Outcomes, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Edited by Alain Fayolle, Jan Uljin & Paula Kyrö, Published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2005

This valuable new book highlights the unique characteristics and rich variety of European research in entrepreneurship. It adopts several different perspectives and focuses on some of the key issues in the field.The authors first illustrate current conceptions of entrepreneurship research and identify several critical methodological and theoretical questions. They also discuss innovations in European research methodologies, which often result from holistic and systemic approaches, and multi-disciplinary research.

They move on to study entrepreneurship, innovation and culture as a set of interrelated fields, highlighting the role of culture in the growing phenomenon of entrepreneurship. They demonstrate how culture should be understood in a broad sense and at different levels, such as professional culture, corporate culture and national culture. These different perspectives help to identify and position European entrepreneurship research within the international entrepreneurship debate.

Publication from EU Commission

Survey of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education in Europe

The survey report provides a valuable contribution in better understanding strengths and weaknesses of the offer of entrepreneurship education in European HEIs. Results include also a description of successful examples, and an on-line benchmarking tool.

Publications from Network

Women entrepreneurship and Social Capital: A Dialogue and contruction(2008).
Edited by Iiris Aaltio, Paula Kyrö and Elisabet Sundin. Published by School of Economics and Business Administration at University of Tampere and Copenhagen Business School Press, 2008

Entrepreneurship and New Value Creation
The Dynamic of the Entrepreneurial Process
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Alain Fayolle, Professor and Director of the Entrepreneurship Research centre, EM Lyon, 2007

Journals

Journal of Enterprising Culture, Special issue, Cultural, Educational and Technological issues in European Entrepreneurship Research, 2003-2004