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Context plays an important role in entrepreneurship and this is increasingly being acknowledged both in research, practice, and policy considerations. Where, why, and how entrepreneurship occurs can be considered when studying the effects of context. This book focuses on the role of context in entrepreneurship by analyzing different factors, including locational, time-specific, and cultural variables and social conditions. Researchers of entrepreneurship will particularly benefit from the holistic, context-based perspective this book offers.

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João Leitão is an associate professor with habilitation, the director of the UBIExecutive, Business school at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) (Portugal), and a research fellow at the NECE Research Center in Business Sciences at UBI, and associate researcher at the ICS, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon. He is an external research fellow of the Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), Università Degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Beira Interior (UBI) and a habilitation in technological change and entrepreneurship from the University of Lisbon (Portugal). He is member of the European Institute of Technology (EIT) Food RIS Policy Council. He is a prolific author and series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change, and Industrial Dynamics. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals such as Sustainability ( MDPI), The International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (Springer), Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (APDR), Discover Sustainability (Springer), International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (Inderscience), Technological Sustainability, Emerald, and Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity (MDPI). Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University. She is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).

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