Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of how innovation ecosystems, driven by business entrepreneurship and digital transformation, can reshape institutions and industries toward sustainability and resilience. Through diverse case studies and empirical research, it examines strategic knowledge transfer, inclusive talent acquisition, crowdfunding dynamics, and the role of academia in fostering innovation. The book also focuses on sustainable project management, circular economy practices, and eco-innovation in water and waste systems. It highlights the importance of tech-driven ecosystems supported by education, developer communities, and startups. Offering insights into financial systems, policy impacts, and urban innovation, this work equips leaders, scholars, and policymakers with the tools to navigate technological change and build balanced, knowledge-based economies.

Strategically explores digitalization's impact on institutions and sustainable business transformation Comprehensively delivers insights into tech-driven ecosystems and global financial diversification Effectively equips leaders to make informed decisions for resilient, knowledge-based organizations

Autorentext

Samer Ajour El-Zein is Vice Dean of Research and Undergraduate Programs at EAE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics from the American University of Science and Technology (Lebanon), an MBA and an MSc in Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), and a PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain). He serves as Head of the Scientific Committee at the EAE Institute for Business Trends and is a member of the Academia Europea de Dirección y Economía de Empresa (Spain). He lectures in financial economics at EAE, the University of Barcelona (Spain), and Reutlingen University (Germany). He previously worked as a credit risk analyst at W.R. Grace (USA). His research interests include financial inclusivity, financial markets and liquidity, financial economics, and sustainability.

Chelo Morillo is the Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at EAE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. She holds a PhD in Communication from Ramon Llull University (Spain) and a Master's degree in Marketing from ISM (International School of Management, France). She teaches marketing, communication, and branding at EAE Business School (Spain), Universitat de Vic Universitat Central de Catalunya, including the Vic and Manresa campuses (Spain), and Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Dominican Republic). Her research interests include marketing, communication, branding, city branding, and place branding. She has also worked as a marketing and communication manager in various industrial and service-sector companies.

Inhalt

Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The advocacy for a Tech-Corporate Ecosystem.- Fostering Innovation Ecosystems through Academia: A Strategic Approach to Business Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer.- Intrapreneurs: a hidden potential within companies.- The International Cooperative Alliance and the dilemma between Cooperative Societies and Commercial Companies in relation to the principle of cooperation among cooperatives, a need for Corporate Ecosystem.- Networks and Convergences in Innovative Ecosystems.- Rethinking Product Disadoption: Unmasking Disposal, Dispossession, Eco-Friendly Behavior, Innovativeness, and Discontinuousness.- Achieving Circularity Through Novel Product-Service Systems in the Mining Industry: An Opportunity for Circularity.- The Role of Technology in Sustainable Project Management.- Lead with Confidence: key success for resilient organizations and business transformation.- The AI revolution in SMEs: Intelligent personalization and segmentation in digital marketing.- Analysis of Hyperpersonalization in Digital Marketing through Artificial Intelligence.- The Fit for 55 Policy Impact the Liquidity of the European Union Financial Market.- Investment Efficiency in Education and R&D: A Comparative Analysis of Patent and Publication Outcomes in Mexico and Colombia (20132020).- Visa Inc. and the Future of B2B Payments: A Blockchain-Based Strategy within the EU MiCA Compliance.- Preliminary insolvency proceedings following the latest reform of insolvency law.- Process Innovation and Circularity through Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of AERESS.- The role of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in shaping institutional identity and disseminating messages for the corporate ecosystem, the case of the Football Club Barcelona.