This edited book focuses on strategic aspects of innovation in the context of resilience during and after a crisis. It investigates the strategies that firms utilize in order to cope with change especially in the competitive global marketplace. The book contends that, by design, entrepreneurship is strategic and innovative in every decision and action of a business. The goal of this book is to focus on the innovation and resilience behind these strategies in order to understand the business motivations. In particular, it focuses on the uncertainties initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the growing research and practice experiences of resilient entrepreneurial businesses and innovations that continued to be stable and successful.

The book thus extends current research on strategic entrepreneurship by integrating it with the field of resilience. This will help to bridge the gap between practice and theory with regard to strategic entrepreneurship. Furthermore, it enables an effective advancement of strategic entrepreneurship research in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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João Leitão is an Associate Professor with habilitation, Director of the UBIExecutive Business School at the University of Beira Interior (UBI, Portugal), a Research Fellow at the NECE Research Center in Business Sciences at UBI and an Associate Researcher at the ICS (Instituto de Ciências Sociais), University of Lisbon (Portugal). He has a Ph.D. in economics from the UBI and a habilitation in technological change and entrepreneurship from the University of Lisbon (Portugal). 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, International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais and Discover Sustainability.

Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University (Australia). 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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Strategic Innovation-Strategies for Entrepreneurship and Resilience.- Workplace Innovation with Baby Boomers: The Role of Job Craftingfor Performance and Well-Being.- Aligning Strategic MSME Entrepreneurship to Local Government Policy: A Case Study of a Tourism Village in Bogor Indonesia.- Exploring Entrepreneurial Diversity: A Fascination or Frustration?.- Financial Constraints to Innovative Activities Revealed BarriersVersus Deterring Barriers: Evidence from Turkey.- Entrepreneurship, Education, and Athletes: Entrepreneurship Within European Dual Career Programmes.- Entrepreneurship, Education, and Athletes: Entrepreneurship Within European Dual Career Programmes.- How to Craft the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Entrepreneurship Education in the Dutch Creative Crafts.- Empowering Community Out of Poverty: A Case of Kampong BolkiahCommunity Development Centre, Brunei Darussalam.- How Does the Effect of Absorptive Capacity on Innovation CapacityChange According to Countries' Technology Manufacturing Value-Added Levels?.- Reinforcing the Labor Market Resilience: Exploring the RelationshipBetween Minimum Wage, Official Economy, and Informal Economy Using Granger Causality and Scenario Simulations.- Uncovering the Main Characteristics of Shadow Economies in Romania and Moldova for Strengthening the Labour Market Resilience.