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Trends in European Research on Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Century

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This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on Entrepreneurship Research in Europe, a selection of papers from the XIVth RENT conference held in Prague, the Czech Republic, November 23–24, 2000. It provides an overview of the articles and also discusses some of the themes that bind them together: Networking and the diffusion of innovations and family business. In addition, the paper includes a short section highlighting advances in the Italian entrepreneurship climate as evidenced by data provided by several of the papers in this issue carried out by Italian researchers on Italian SMEs.

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  1. Eastern Michigan University, U.S.A. and Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics (CASBEC), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Uhlaner, L.M. Trends in European Research on Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Century. Small Business Economics 21, 321–328 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026154819266

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