From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship

Chapter 1. Scenes from a Marriage.- Chapter 2. I Will Always Be Proud to Call Him My Father.- Chapter 3. My Dad, the Athlete, Entertainer, Phrase Philosopher, Conformist and Analogist.- Chapter 4. Perhaps David Audretsch Is Not a Good Man.- Chapter 5. Henry David Bruce Audretsch: A Retrospective ... Perhaps.- Chapter 6. Distinguished Professor Dr. David B. Audretsch: World Renowned Researcher - Legendary ICON in Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 7. a Journey Through Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 8. the Symmetry of Acs and Audretsch: How We Met, Why We Stuck and How We Succeeded.- Chapter 9. Visions of the Past: David Was Always There.- Chapter 10. Structural Change, Knowledge Spillovers and the Role of Smes and Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 11. David B. Audretsch: Spilling Knowledge All over the World.- Chapter 12. the Shape of Things to Come.- Chapter 13. David Audretsch: A Source of Inspiration, a Co-Author, and a Friend.- Chapter 14. David: A Cultural Entrepreneur.- Chapter 15. David Audretsch andInternational Business: Bringing It All Back Home.- Chapter 16. Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship and Growth.- Chapter 17. David Audretsch and New Directions in Spillover Academic Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 18. David Audretsch - a Bibliometric Portrait of a Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar.- Chapter 19. David Audretsch: The Capacity to Design and to Influence a Research Agenda.- Chapter 20. Education, Human Capital Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Swedish Firm Level Production Functions.- Chapter 21. Productivity Slowdown, Innovation and Industry Dynamics.- Chapter 22. Dr. Audretsch: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Doing Small Business Research.- Chapter 23. "I Want To, but I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity.- Chapter 24. Working with David on Both Sides of the Atlantic.- Chapter 25. Festschrift to David B. Audretsch.- Chapter 26. an Overview of the Economics of Entrepreneurship and Small Business: The Legacy of

Erik E. Lehmann is a Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Augsburg (Germany) and Director of the CisAlpino Institute of Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE), a joint venture of the University of Augsburg (Germany) and the University of Bergamo (Italy). He serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo, an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA), co-director of the Augsburg Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), and a board member of the Bavarian America Academy (BAA) in Munich, Germany. Many of his publications on entrepreneurship have received a high amount of citations in the field.
Max Keilbach is a renowned economic researcher in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation. Formally a senior researcher at both the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group) and the Department of Industrial Economics at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), he has published extensively on topics relating to regional clusters, knowledge spillovers and the impact of public policy on economic growth, among others. He has lectured in various institutions throughout the world and has also served as the chairman of a textile company in southwest Germany. In addition to these pursuits, he is also a critically acclaimed vocal musician and has toured in Europe and North America. He has started-up several firms in the entertainment industry in Berlin.