Entrepreneurship, cooperation and the firm: the emergence and survival of high-technology ventures in Europe

Focusing on fresh business development in science and technology, this book highlights the European challenge on cooperation as an asset in initiating techno-ventures and encouraging them to survive and flourish. It brings culture and psychology together in this context of the nascent technopreneur using even psychoanalysis as a research method

Pt. 1. The role of the individual versus that of the institution -- Pt. 2. The econo-geographic aspects of emergence, cooperation and survival -- Pt. 3. The cultural levels of nation, gender, profession, sector and region in emergence, cooperation and survival