regional development

Episode 154 – Mikael Samuelsson – From deficit narratives to ambidextrous embeddedness: how high-tech ventures navigate and transform hyperdynamic contexts in sub-Saharan Africa

Episode 154
 00:12:30

Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed through a deficit lens, emphasizing constraints such as financial limitations and weak institutions. While recent studies emphasize the potential of high-tech ventures in such settings, we still lack process-based accounts of how these ventures navigate these environments, particularly how their embeddedness unfold over time and how social, spatial…

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Episode 153 – Veronica Scuotto & Theofilos Tzanidis – Navigating international entrepreneurship while impacting regional development in the digital age

Episode 153
 00:17:12

The study explores how international enterprises navigate expansion in other markets simultaneously contributing to the regional development. Such international enterprises use digital platforms and disruptive technologies to transform their business models. Digital platform adoption and technological integration accelerate internationalization efforts and facilitate regional economic growth. A new theoretical framework is built upon international entrepreneurship orientation…

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Episode 55 – Bengt Johannisson – Academic entrepreneuring as a long-term commitment to regional development

Episode 55

The practice of ‘academic entrepreneuring’ here signifies a scholar’s innovative, integrative and persistent mode of pursuing and integrating a university’s three tasks, those of doing research, teaching students and performing outreach activities. The success of academic entrepreneuring is conditioned by the individual’s and the university’s ability to become recognized as a legitimate and trusted knowledge-creator…

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Authors 33 – Sarah Dodd & Juliette Wilson – Crafting Growth

Episode 32

There is a re-positioning of entrepreneurship towards the sustaining, the frugal, the local, and the everyday. This poses challenges for peripheral policy work, especially around growth, at sectoral and regional levels.

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