Chapter 1. The Genome of Digital Entrepreneurship: A Descriptive Framework -- Chapter 2. Innovation Through Tradition: Leveraging the Past to Face New Challenges -- Chapter 3. Linking Business Model Mapping and Innovation with Intellectual Capital in technological start-ups -- Chapter 4. Facilitating Business startup launch: an interpretative framework based on Project Management -- Chapter 5. Corporate 'Excelerators': How Organizations can Speed-up Crowdventuring for Exponential Innovation -- Chapter 6. Financing the Development of Technology Startups -- Chapter 7. Entrepreneurability: Innovation Labs as engines of innovation capacity development -- Chapter 8. Circular Economy Innovative Entrepreneurship: a conceptual foundation -- Chapter 9. Encouraging Entrepreneurial Competence development in Italian University students: insights from the "Contamination Lab" cases -- Chapter 10. Catalyzing innovative entrepreneurship: an Italian case study -- Chapter 11. Supporting Innovative Entrepreneurship in southern Italy: the case of a public private technology district.

This book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship. It explores the ways in which entrepreneurs learn and develop innovation-based businesses to drive increased regional competitiveness. Specifically, the contributions propose that sustainable innovation ecosystems booster innovative entrepreneurship and thus create a competitive advantage for smart and sustainable growth. It also examines the current state of entrepreneurship education, where the development of entrepreneurial abilities is considered a process of value creation-both economic and social-with the final aim to create both new start-ups and entrepreneurial mind-sets. Featuring theoretical approaches and empirical evidences, this title is appropriate for scholars, academics, students and policy makers in technology and innovation management, economics of innovation and entrepreneurship.