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Delve deep into the heart of entrepreneurial ecosystems in lesser-known regions across the globe, as we unravel the complex tapestry of factors that drive their growth and sustainability. This book offers a rich exploration of diverse ecosystems in Brazil, South Africa, the islands of Madagascar and Reunion, Norway, and countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a diverse array of perspectives and real-world experiences, it reveals the drivers and challenges shaping entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems worldwide. Discover the critical role of factors like regional leadership, social entrepreneurs, supportive policies, and cultural dynamics, and see how regions overcome challenges through innovation and resilience. Ideal for policymakers, scholars, and entrepreneurs, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Drivers, Challenges and Success of Territories is not just a collection of research. It's a roadmap to building vibrant entrepreneurial communities packed with practical guidance and transformative ideas. Whether you are aiming to nurture an entrepreneurial ecosystem or seeking inspiration from global success stories, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone passionate about the future of entrepreneurship and innovation. Join us on this captivating journey and be part of shaping vibrant entrepreneurial regions around the world.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship. --- Emerging economies. --- Entrepreneurial ecosystems. --- Entrepreneurial universities. --- Innovation ecosystems. --- Public policies. --- Regional development.

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Influencer Politics focuses on current discussions about the role and impact of social media influencers in the political sphere, and how the personal, political and promotional often converges in digital media. A key question is how core ideas of influencer culture – authenticity, intimacy, commercialism, and self-branding – shape the ways in which politics are expressed and understood in this context, as well as opens up space for new ways of connecting and interacting with the public. It also highlights the way that influencer culture itself is infused with politics, where issues of, for example, empowerment and exploitation are articulated and discussed in different ways. The book is the result of a common interest among researchers engaged in work on political aspects of influencer marketing and influencer culture from critical, cultural, and strategic perspectives, and offers a range of case studies devoted to both the promises and limitations of influencer politics.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- Affective Economies. --- Branding. --- Digital Media. --- Influencers. --- Political Communication. --- Social Media.

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Public and political interest in social entrepreneurship (SE) is increasing while it remains a contested and ambiguous concept. Philipp Kenel traces the popular media representation of SE in Germany over time (1999-2021), making an important empirical contribution to the sociological and political understanding of the phenomenon. He shows that until 2008, SE was mainly understood as a reform of the welfare infrastructure (including public and non-profit institutions). From 2009, SE was increasingly conceptualised as part of the economy, while sometimes challenging and other times reaffirming mainstream economic logics. More recently, in somewhat competing perspectives, SE has been framed as part of the ›start-up‹ world or as a force for deeper social and ecological transformation.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship. --- Alternative Economies. --- Capitalism. --- Civil Society. --- Economic Sociology. --- Economic Theory. --- Economic and Social Thought. --- Economy. --- Empirical Discourse. --- Neoliberalism. --- Political Science. --- Social Movements.

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An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better navigate issues of innovation and inequality.   From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with the benefits going to a small few. Rather than simply asking how we can create more high-tech cities and nations, Innovation for the Masses focuses on places that manage to foster innovation while also delivering the benefits more widely and equally. In this book, economist Neil Lee draws on case studies of Taiwan, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland to set out how innovation can be successfully balanced toward equity.   As high-tech economies around the world suffer from polarized labor markets and political realities that lock in these problems, this book looks beyond the United States to other models of distributing a leading-edge economy. Lee emphasizes the active role of the state in creating frameworks to ensure that benefits are broadly shared, and he reveals that strong policies for innovation and shared prosperity are mutually reinforcing. Ultimately, Innovation for the Masses provides a vital window into alternative models that prioritize equity, the roadblocks these models present, and what other countries can learn from them going forward.

Technological innovations --- Equality --- Economic aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Economic Geography. --- Europe. --- NGOs. --- development. --- entrepreneurship. --- inclusive growth. --- inequality in advanced economies. --- inequality. --- living standards. --- policymakers. --- public policy. --- redistribution. --- research and development. --- shared prosperity. --- sustainability.

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This paper studies the potential effects of geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF) in the sub-Saharan Africa region (SSA) through quantifying potential long-term economic costs. The paper considers two alternative GEF scenarios in which trade relations are fully or partially curtailed across world economies. Our quantification relies on a multi-country multi-sector general equilibrium model and takes a deep dive into the impact across SSA’s oil-rich, other resource-rich and non-resource-rich countries. The results are based on a detailed dataset including information for 136 tradable primary commodity and 24 manufacturing and services sectors in 145 countries—32 of which are in SSA. We find that under GEF, SSA could experience long-term wellfare losses of approximately 4 percent of GDP, twice the losses of the rest of the world. This strong effect results from the large losses of other resource-rich and non-resource rich countries in SSA, given their high dependence on commodity trade. However, if the world experiences a less severe GEF-induced trade disruption—a strategic decoupling—SSA countries could derive minor gains from the re-shuffling of global market supply, specially in energy products.

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