Entrepreneurial Discovery Process and Regional Development

<p>There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014 the European Commission began implementing Smart Specialisation Strategy a place-based strategy of growth regional transformation and new industrial policy with collective entrepreneurial discovery processes (EDP) at its core. This volume approaches the mystery of entrepreneurial discovery; that is how relevant knowledge is created converted and shared in a process of discovery. </p><p></p><p>These essays bring together scholars from economics geography sociology organisation studies innovation studies and complexity theory offering new approaches to overcome the limitations of place-based development and suggesting improved methods leading to growth.</p>