Handbook of Research on Global Competitive Advantage Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

As businesses seek to compete on a global stage, they must be constantly aware of pressures from all levels: regional, local, and worldwide. The organizations that can best build advantages in diverse environments achieve the greatest success. The Handbook of Research on Global Competitive Advantage through Innovation and Entrepreneurship explores the emergence of new ideas and opportunities in various markets and provides organizational leaders with the tools they need to take full advantage of those opportunities. With a focus on economic growth in a fast-paced environment, this handbook is a critical reference for business leaders, economists, and students of economic theory.

Luis M. Carmo Farinha is an assistant at Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute, teaching management and entrepreneurship. Teaching of the higher institute of Languages and Management of Leiria. His areas of interest are the networks of innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness. Previously he was Senior Technician of Human Resources and Management Control; and Team member project of the new bleach plant and newline Park woods (manufacturing expansion projects) / responsible for health and safety at work at Pulp and paper industry, in Portugal. Representative of the Board of General Assembly of a Portuguese Gas company.

João J. M. Ferreira is Associate Professor at University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He completed the European Doctoral Programme of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. He is currently the Scientific Coordinator of NECE Research Unit of Business Sciences as well as Director of the 2nd cycle in Management. He has published several articles in international journals editor of some international books. His areas of interest are strategy, entrepreneurship and competitiveness.

Helen Lawton Smith is a Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research career has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, innovation, public policy and regional development in national and international contexts. She is the Founder and Research Director of the Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University (http://oeo.geog.ox.ac.uk) and is Director of the Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research (http://bbk.ac.uk/innovation). She is the author of nine books and of over ninety journal articles and book chapters and is Associate Editor, Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance.

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1989. From January 2005 until December 2010, she served as the chief editor of one of the flagship journals of the Association of American GeographersThe Professional Geographer. She has served on the editorial board of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Applied Geography, and The Canadian Geographer.