Alan Abramson | Zoltan Acs | Phil Auerswald | Paul Rogers | Roger Stough

Alan Abramson

Health Care Conversions and Philanthropy: Important Issues for Practice and Research

Dennis F. Beatrice, Rapporteur Lucy Bernholz and editor Alan J. Abramson (Oct. 2005)

This report presents a paper and highlights from The California Forum on Health Care Conversions and Philanthropy: Moving the Dialogue Forward. This meeting, co-sponsored by Grantmakers In Health and The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, engaged grantmakers, consumer groups, regulators, and policymakers in dialogue on critical issues related to philanthropy that arise in health care conversions in California and nationwide.

The report focuses on the new foundations that have been established from the sale or transfer of assets of nonprofit hospitals, HMOs, and insurance providers to for-profit providers. It includes opinions by a diverse group of stakeholders on the mission, governance, and impact of the new health foundations and the broad policy, practice, and research implications of conversion activity.

 

Zoltan Acs:

Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Economy: Creating the Conditions for Business Growth

Acs, Z. J., and R. R. Stough, eds. Springer, 2010.

This unique volume presents policy recommendations designed to promote entrepreneurship. It considers timely issues like impact of securities regulation, educational policy and intellectual property protection on entrepreneurship. In the process, the book addresses policies operating at the individual, national, regional, and international levels, and offers a unique perspective on several institutional structures that enhance entrepreneurship and economic growth.

 

Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction

Acs, Z. J., and D. B. Audretsch, eds. Springer, 2010.

Brings together leading scholars from a broad spectrum of fields such as management, finance, economics, sociology and psychology.

Provides an overview of what the issues are for entrepreneurship when viewed through the lens provided by each of the above mentioned academic disciplines.

 

Advocacy report, High-Impact Firms: Gazelles Revisited

Acs, Z. J., and R. R. Stough, eds. Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Economy: Creating the Conditions for Business Growth. Springer, 2010.

Acs, Z. J., and D. B. Audretsch, eds. Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction. Springer, 2010.

Acs, Z. J, ed. The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010.

Acs, Z., D. Audretsch and R. Storm, eds. Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Acs, Z. and J. Sany. “Measuring the Social Value of Innovation: The cases of Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and Bill Gates, Microsoft.” InAdvances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, Volume 19, Measuring the Social Value of Innovation: A Link in the University Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Equation. Elsevier/JAI Press, Gary D. Libecap, Editor, 2009.

Phil Auerswald:

The Coming Prosperity: A Guide to Opportunity in the Age of Entrepreneurship

Oxford University Press, 2011.

Auerswald, P. E., and van Opstal, D. “Coping with Turbulence: The Resilience Imperative.” Innovations: Special Edition for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009, 203-218. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009 .

Auerswald, P. E., and Z. Acs. “Defining Prosperity.” The American Interest, (May/June 2009): 4-13.

Auerswald, P. E. “Creating Social Value.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, (Spring 2009): 51-55.

Auerswald, P. E., Branscomb, L. “Research and Innovation in a Networked World.” Technology in Society 30, nos. 3-4 (2008): 339-347.

Auerswald, P. E., Kulkarni, R. “Placing Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity.” Economic of Innovation and New Technology 17, no. 7 (2008): 733-750.

Auerswald, P. E. “Entrepreneurship in the Theory of the Firm.” Small Business Economics 30, no. 2 (2008): 111-126.

Paul Rogers:

“North American longitudinal studies of writing” 

From Traditions of Writing Research (Routledge, 2009)

“Writing, knowledge making, and learning to write in college: Insights from an historical perspective”

From Writing [in] the Knowledge Society (Parlor Press, forthcoming).

The Writing Across the Curriculum Sourcebook 

Co-edited with Terry Zawacki (Bedford St. Martin’s, 2011)

“Rejoining the learning circle: When inservice providers conduct research”

From the January 2011 issue of English Education.

Roger Stough

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Local Processes and Global Patterns (New Horizons in Regional Science)

Karlsson/Johansson/Stough (Eds.) Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2010), Edward Elgar, MA, USA.

Perhaps the most exceptional aspect of the current era of globalisation is that entrepreneurship has become the engine for local processes of economic, social and cultural development throughout the world. This important new book brings together a number of leading scholars in the field to explore the development aspects of globalisation, in particular those that foster the evolution of entrepreneurs in local-global processes. The expert contributions consider local processes such as entrepreneurship, new firm formation, creativity, media clustering, migration, and many more. They examine how the footprints of these processes reveal themselves in the contemporary global context, characterized by increasing economic interdependence as evidenced by the expanding trade in goods and services, and the growth in capital, knowledge and technology flows. The authors highlight the fact that global patterns of change are the result of innumerable local processes driven by economic, political and social entrepreneurs in localities, regions and nations around the world. With a variety of geographic perspectives, this book will appeal to researchers, students and policymakers in a range of fields including urban and regional economics, economic geography, international trade, and entrepreneurship and innovation policy.

New Directions in Regional Economic Development (Advances in Spatial Science)

Karlsson/Andersson/Cheshire/Stough (Eds.) New Directions in Regional Economic Development (2009), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany

The emphasis of this book lies on emerging hypotheses, new methods and theoretic developments in the field of regional economic development. A further amplification is provided with a diverse set of cases extending this new way of thinking at the theory and methods level into policy and practice. The case studies range from a focus on Europe, Central and East Asia and North America. Considerable emphasis is laid on the role of entrepreneurship and innovation as drivers of economic growth and development on the sub-national regional level.

Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions

Karlsson/Stough/Johansson (Eds.) Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions (2009), Edward Elgar, MA, USA 

In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by means of flows of information, knowledge, and commodities. This contemporary and illuminating book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on innovation and entrepreneurship in functional regions.

There are numerous questions regarding entrepreneurship and innovation in functional regions that have not yet been answered – until now. Some of the issues that the expert contributors in this field question are – How do firms compete and how do they develop their competitive strategies? How important are entrepreneurial actions and innovation? How important are firm size, firm maturity and corporate structure for innovation?

Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of entrepreneurship, business economics, innovation and regional science.

Innovation, Agglomeration and Regional Competition (New Horizons in Regional Science)

Karlsson/Johansson/Stough (Eds.) Innovation, Agglomeration and Regional Competition (2009), Edward Elgar, MA, USA 

 

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation.

Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: How and why do regions compete? How does competition between border regions operate? Which regions are successful and which regions fail? What are the implications of regional competition in terms of resource allocation, the location of economic activities and the distribution of incomes? The book illuminates a number of critical theoretical end empirical issues relating to the competitive and cooperative nature of regions, as well as highlighting a number of new case studies from a variety of countries.

The book will be a useful enhancement to undergraduate and post-graduate courses in economics, economic geography, regional science, regional planning, business administration, and international and industrial management. It will also be an invaluable guidance tool for researchers, consultants and policy makers in international organizations such as the EU, the World Bank and the OECD.