Abstract
This Special Issue, “Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovation”, comprises a selection of papers addressing approaches and tools to understand how entrepreneurship and innovation can be good vehicles for competitiveness. These studies address the multifaceted topics surrounding entrepreneurship, such as exploratory and exploitative innovation performance, inter-enterprise knowledge, clusters, entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, sustainable growth, etc. These topics include the definitions of the concepts of entrepreneurship, innovation, and competitiveness, as well as the identification of factors affecting these types of phenomena. Perspectives guiding the design of entrepreneurship and innovation are presented to be considered when implementing public policies for increasing economic growth and competitiveness. Papers use some support theories to explain the topics studied here, such as cluster theory, resources-based theory, social theory and institutional theory, among others. Thus, in general, this Special Issue is devoted to the study of the benefits of entrepreneurship, innovation practices, and competitiveness in various countries and regions worldwide, but mainly in China. Therefore, this Special Issue is of particular value for both academic research and the context of business.
Highlights
Entrepreneurship has a crucial role in economic and social growth, competitiveness and innovation, and for society in general, and so countries have focused greatly on this phenomenon
Various studies recognise the stimulating effect of entrepreneurship on economic development [6], innovation and competitiveness, reflected in the strong emergence of political measures to encourage entrepreneurial activity [7]
This Special Issue focuses on three topics and has received many valuable papers/manuscripts which are meritorious for their focus on the better development of business and academic research in these related contexts
Summary
Entrepreneurship has a crucial role in economic and social growth, competitiveness and innovation, and for society in general, and so countries have focused greatly on this phenomenon. This Special Issue focuses on three topics (entrepreneurship, innovation and competitiveness) and has received many valuable papers/manuscripts which are meritorious for their focus on the better development of business and academic research in these related contexts.
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