This book makes original contributions to the literature on clusters, human capital, and regional development by focusing on the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth, aiming for a better understanding of the dynamics of growth determined by the entrepreneur's action in the regional space. The focus is therefore on critical reflection and rethinking the articulation between three levels of analysis of economic systems, namely entrepreneurship, human capital and regional development, which have not so far been perfectly articulated in the literature of reference on endogenous growth.

¿Part I: Entrepreneurship.- 1 Entrepreneurship Capital and Regional Development.- 2 Career Paths of Academic Entrepreneurs and University Spin-off Growth.- 3 The Role of Employee's Human Capital and the Work Environment on the Creation of Organizational Spin-offs.- 4 How far do hiring parent firm workers enter the performance strategy of spin-off and start-up in their entrepreneurial stage?.- 5 Early-stage Businesses, Resource Inheritance and Co-workers Hiring.- Part II: Human Capital.- 6 Economic Performance of Portuguese Academic Spin-Offs.- 7 Recruitment processes and capability development in academic spin-offs. An exploratory work.- 8 Coopetition and Open Innovation.- 9 Does Human Capital Impact differently the Opportunity Perception and the Business Creation?.- 10 The influence of creativity on entrepreneurship.- Part III: Regional Development.- 11 Cluster(ing) Policies in Turkey.- 12 Are small firms more dependent on the local environment than larger firms?.- 13 Organizational Heritage and Entrepreneurship.- 14 High-Growth Firms.- 15 Regional Industrial Policy in Norway and Spain.- 16 Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, and Growth in the Fast Growing Firms in Portugal.