The life cycle of entrepreneurial ventures / edited by Simon Parker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Simon C. Parker -- 2. Nascent entrepreneurs / Joachim Wagner -- 3. New venture strategies : transforming caterpillars into butterflies / Shaker A. Zahra -- 4. Entrepreneurship education - a compendium of related issues / Lena Lee and Poh-Kam Wong -- 5. Immigration, entrepreneurship and the venture start-up process / Herbert J. Schuetze and Heather Antecol -- 6. Location and new venture creation / David B. Audretsch and Erik Lehmann -- 7. On factors promoting and hindering entry and exist / Martin A. Carree -- 8. Debt finance and credit constraints on SMEs / Robert Cressy -- 9. Public policy, start-up entrepreneurship and the market for venture capital / Christian Keuschnigg and Soren Bo Nielsen -- 10. Informal sources of venture finance / Colin M. Mason -- 11. Microfinance and poor entrepreneurs / Joao Pedro Azevedo -- 12. Entrepreneurs as producers / Simon C. Parker -- 13. What do we know about small firm growth? / Per Davidsson, Leona Achtenhagen and Lucia Naldi -- 14. Nonprofit social entrepreneurship / Helen Haugh -- 15. Entrepreneurship among disadvantaged groups : women, minorities and the less educated / Robert W. Fairlie -- 16. Early stage survival and growth / Marc Cowling -- 17. Venture performance and venture inputs : the role of human and financial capital / C. Mirjam van Praag -- 18. Harvesting in high growth firms / Maks Tajnikar, Petra Dosenovic Bonca and Lidija Zajec.