Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Genome of Digital Entrepreneurship: A Descriptive Framework.
Chapter 3. Innovation Through Tradition: Leveraging the Past to Face New Challenges.
Chapter 4. Linking Business Model Mapping and Innovation with Intellectual Capital in technological start-ups.
Chapter 5. Facilitating Business startup launch: an interpretative framework based on Project Management.
Chapter 6. Corporate 'Excelerators': How Organizations can Speed-up Crowdventuring for Exponential Innovation.
Chapter 7. Financing the Development of Technology Startups.
Chapter 8. Entrepreneurability: Innovation Labs as engines of innovation capacity development.
Chapter 9. Circular Economy Innovative Entrepreneurship: a conceptual foundation.
Chapter 10. Encouraging Entrepreneurial Competence development in Italian University students: insights from the "Contamination Lab" cases.
Chapter 11. Catalyzing innovative entrepreneurship: an Italian case study.
Chapter 12. Supporting Innovative Entrepreneurship in southern Italy: the case of a public private technology district.

This book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship. It explores the ways in which entrepreneurs learn and develop innovation-based businesses to drive increased regional competitiveness. Specifically, the contributions propose that sustainable innovation ecosystems booster innovative entrepreneurship and thus create a competitive advantage for smart and sustainable growth.