Entrepreneurship and Regional Development : The Role of Clusters

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development makes a theoretical and practical contribution meeting the need for studies on the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship societal outcomes. To this end, this book aims to answer the following research question: do clusters matter to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship outcomes at the societal level?

Four criteria are put forward to set the framework and formulate the concrete research question of this study in order to make a theoretical and practical contribution: the what (phenomena and concepts), the how (relationships), the why (theories and assumptions), and the what for (implications). The first three criteria are the basic building blocks for a theoretical contribution and are related to the theoretical goals of understanding, describing, and explaining; the fourth criteria is the basic building block for a practical contribution and is related to the practical goal of control, change or prescription.