Entrepreneurial Finance Innovation and Development

<p>Entrepreneurship is now unanimously considered a major engine for socio-economic development mainly because it creates jobs and innovation. Governments around the world pay special attention to removing entrepreneurial barriers in order to support development via different policies especially entrepreneurial finance. Developing emerging and transition economies (DETEs) significantly differ from industrialized countries because of their specific conditions: institutions infrastructure facilities and bureaucratic procedures within the administrative system. Thus firms and their entrepreneurs in and from DETEs may behave differently particularly in terms of their financial strategies. Therefore contextualizing is critical to better understand the relationship between entrepreneurial finance innovation and development in DETEs. </p><p>This book provides a systematic and profound understanding of how finance entrepreneurship innovation and their interactions contribute to economic development in DETEs which cover a large number of countries in Asia Central and Eastern Europe Latin America and Africa. The book mainly includes empirical studies and is divided into four parts. Part A<b> </b>includes four chapters which adopt a multinational approach to examine different sources and types of finance for entrepreneurship and small business in different groups of countries classified as DETEs. Part B<b> </b>also includes four chapters and focuses on entrepreneurial finance in specific countries belonging to the DETEs. Part C<b> </b>goes beyond the business scope of entrepreneurial finance and includes three chapters concerned with the relationship between finance women's entrepreneurship and poverty. Part D<b> </b>includes three chapters focusing on the comparison within developing countries as well as between developing and developed countries. </p><p>This essential and comprehensive resource will find an audience amongst academics students educators and practitioners as well as policymakers and regulators.</p>