Engines of Economic Prosperity

Creating Innovation and Economic Opportunities through Entrepreneurship

By Editors Meltem İnce YENİLMEZ & Burak DARICI

     Some parts of our today world are growing old because of how they have advanced in medicine, better nutrition, increased their life expectancy, as well as provided better care for the aged. As such, people can be more active in terms of how long they can work, which means there will be an increase in the value for everyone. During this period of business and social change, entrepreneurship plays a great role in the creation of employment opportunities and wealth, mostly in conjunction with public institutions. That is why the support for entrepreneurship is growingrapidly in the developed world. In the previous years, we have seen how demanding business ventures have impacted the world greatly. We are talking of technology-focused projects that have changed the way people see life. Regarding wealth and job creation, the emerging solutions through such developments, the international and national impact has been massive. Ventures like that are the exception and not the norm irrespective of how relevant they are. That said, they are a subset of the mainstream entrepreneurship, representing where every economy wants to be, and attracting concerns from researchers. As we recognize these ventures, our focus is to unravel the huge opportunities of these entrepreneurial activity, highlighting and exploring the gray areas, so that everyone can benefit from the exposition. It should be stated that when these projects are viewed independently, they don’t pull as much weight. But, when viewed together, you notice an attractive balance, making it a reasonable contributor to UN’s proposal for sustainable development. Through this publication, the editors want to open up the frontiers of entrepreneurship research so that new avenues can be leveraged for the collective development of everyone. This book offers a platform for possible uses, as well as contexts for research, study, scholarship, and academic inquiry that can be used by researchers, students, and scholars concerning innovation as well as social capital with organizational setups. It is equally suited for practitioners and policy makers. The book is composed of 19 chapters that are grouped into 4 sections, according to each chapter’s theme.

Are Social Incubators Social Enterprises? A Study of Italian Social Incubators

Filippo Giordano, Alessandro Lanteri and Laura Michelini

Chapter 8

The Linkages Between Immigration, Diversity, and Innovation: Mobility of Knowledge and Experiences

Mehmet Gökay Özerim and Elif Çetin

Chapter 9

Entrepreneurship in the Health Care System in Poland: Selected Issues

Jacek Klich

Chapter 10

The Role of Education for Creation of Entrepreneurship Society

Marija Zarezankova-Potevska

Chapter 11

Cultural Heritage as an Engine of Sustainable Development in the Tourism Sector

Constantinos-Vasilios Priporas, Shasha Zhao, Marina Papanastassiou and Simon Best

Chapter 12

Sustainable Enterprise DNA

Mario Svigir

Chapter 13

Causal Performativity and the Definition of Social Entrepreneurship

Alessandro Lanteri and Francesco Perrini

Chapter 14

A Research on the Effect of Personnel Empowerment on Culinary Creativity in Restaurants

Ramazan Eren, Abdullah Tarinc and Ceyhun C. Kilinc

Chapter 15

Three Perspectives for the Development of Sustainable Enterprises

Christian Pirker

Chapter 16

Rethinking Managerial Control in the Contemporary Context: What CanWe Learn fromRecent Chinese Indigenous Management Research?

Thierry Burger-Helmchen and Jean Yves Le Corre

Chapter 17

Women Entrepreneurship for Bridging Economic Gaps

Meltem İnce-Yenilmez

Chapter 18

Economics, Legal, Political and Social Environment of Entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan

Andrei Generalov and Olga Generalova-Kutuzova

Chapter 19

The Impact of R&D Spending and Technology on EconomicDevelopment

Erhan İşcan and Gizem Öğrü

About Editors

Meltem Ince-Yenilmez is Associate Professor of Labour Economics and Gender Studies in the Department of Economics, Yasar University, Turkey.  She is also Visiting Scholar in the Department of Women`s and Gender Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Research Associate at Five College Women's Studies Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Visiting Researcher at Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden

Burak Darıcı works as an academician in Economics at Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, Turkey. He has published in several areas. He focuses especially on monetary policy, labour market, financial markets and international economics. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Economics Deparment.