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Engines of Economic Prosperity

Creating Innovation and Economic Opportunities through Entrepreneurship

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers an excellent foundation for investigating and questioning current entrepreneurial practices

  • Provides useful insights into the real world

  • Considers the for-profit and the not-for-profit sectors

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. The Gendered Aspects of Age Capital for Entering Entrepreneurship

    • Isabella Moore CBE, Judy Scully, Nick Theodorakopoulos
    Pages 1-20
  3. Managing Innovation in Smart Industries

    • Borut Likar
    Pages 21-36
  4. Are Social Incubators Social Enterprises? A Study of Italian Social Incubators

    • Filippo Giordano, Alessandro Lanteri, Laura Michelini
    Pages 113-137
  5. The Role of Education for Creation of Entrepreneurship Society

    • Marija Zarezankova-Potevska
    Pages 179-191
  6. Cultural Heritage as an Engine of Sustainable Development in the Tourism Sector

    • Constantinos-Vasilios Priporas, Shasha Zhao, Marina Papanastassiou, Simon Best
    Pages 193-208
  7. Sustainable Enterprise DNA

    • Mario Svigir
    Pages 209-229
  8. Causal Performativity and the Definition of Social Entrepreneurship

    • Alessandro Lanteri, Francesco Perrini
    Pages 231-266
  9. A Research on the Effect of Personnel Empowerment on Culinary Creativity in Restaurants

    • Ramazan Eren, Abdullah Tarinc, Ceyhun C. Kilinc
    Pages 267-289
  10. Women Entrepreneurship for Bridging Economic Gaps

    • Meltem Ince-Yenilmez
    Pages 323-336
  11. Economics, Legal, Political and Social Environment of Entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan

    • Andrei Generalov, Olga Generalova-Kutuzova
    Pages 337-357
  12. The Impact of R&D Spending and Technology on Economic Development

    • Erhan İşcan, Gizem Öğrü
    Pages 359-374

About this book

This book considers the extent to which innovation and entrepreneurship are engines of economic prosperity. It brings together theorists and empiricists from diverse backgrounds to provides a comprehensive overview of the field of entrepreneurship, focusing specifically on entrepreneurial developments within Turkey and the surrounding regions and Europe. It looks at innovation, creativity, economic development and women’s empowerment. This book considers the for-profit and the not-for-profit sectors, and examines outcome metrics such as change, sustainability and employment, in addition to economic value.  This book will inspire academics and students to better understand the origins, evolution and impact of new ideas, new organizations, and new industries, and the impact on the economy. 

This book offers an excellent foundation for investigating and questioning current entrepreneurial practices across developed economies. It will also provide the foundations for researching and evaluating new and existing approaches to emerging technologies. Additionally, the book will offer useful insights into the real world, and will appeal to academics in economics and business as well as those studying entrepreneurship on the international scene.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Yaşar University, İzmir, Turkey

    Meltem Ince-Yenilmez

  • Department of Economic Theory, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University, Bandırma / Balıkesir, Turkey

    Burak Darici

About the editors

Meltem Ince-Yenilmez is Associate Professor of Labour Economics and Gender Studies in the Department of Economics, Yasar University, Turkey.  She is also Visiting Scholar in the Department of Women`s and Gender Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Research Associate at Five College Women's Studies Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Visiting Researcher at Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.      

Burak Darici is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economic Theory at Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University, Bandırma / BALIKESİR, Turkey.  He is also the Vice-Chair of the Economics Deparment.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Engines of Economic Prosperity

  • Book Subtitle: Creating Innovation and Economic Opportunities through Entrepreneurship

  • Editors: Meltem Ince-Yenilmez, Burak Darici

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76088-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76087-8Published: 02 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76090-8Published: 03 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76088-5Published: 01 September 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 380

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economics, general, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship, Financial Engineering

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Buying options

eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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