Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund -- New start up firms among Swedish patent holders / Roger Svensson -- Entrepreneurial human capital : a real options perspective / Karl Wennberg -- New ventures' entry strategies : a comparison of academic and non academic business startups / Sari Roininen, Håkan Ylinenpää -- How human capital affects self employment among the science and technology labor force / Johan Wiklund, Frédéric Delmar, Karin Hellerstedt -- Framing of new business concepts in established corporations : an explanatory investigation / Christian Czernich, Ivo Zander -- Refueling or running dry : entrepreneurs' energetic resources and the start up process / Anders Landberg -- International entrepreneurship and the theory of effectuation / Svante Andersson -- Learning from Swedish entrepreneurship research / Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund.

"Entrepreneurship research often presupposes similarities between national contexts despite evidence of extensive differences. This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation using a variety of data sources, methods and theories." "The authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context underpinning this research is Sweden - a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be uniquely addressed with great concern for relevance and policy implications."--BOOK JACKET.