Entrepreneurial Renaissance

Piero Formica started his career as an economist at the OECD Economic Prospects Division in Paris, then moving to academic institutions. Professor Formica is Founder of the International Entrepreneurship Academy and was Professor of Economics with a special focus on innovation and entrepreneurship at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Innovational Value Institute where he leads an international research team on experimentation and simulation of high-expectation startups. He is Adjunct Professor of Knowledge Economics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran (Iran), and a Guest Professor at the University of Tartu (Estonia) where he held the Marie Curie Professorship at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Formica is a Councilor of the World Certificate Institute, a global certifying body that grants credential awards to individuals as well as accredits courses of organizations, and member of the International Advisory Panel of Amrita Center for Responsible Innovations and Sustainable Enterprises (ARISE), Amrita University, India. the Entovation Knowledge Management Network, and IKED (the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development).

Editor's Note.- Foreword by Martin Curley.- Foreword by Alan Barrell.- Ch 1 Scope of Renaissance.- Ch 2 Harbouring the City of Sydney's Fluid Renaissance.- Ch 3 Bangalore: Development through Intercultural Interaction.- Ch 4 Tel Aviv: A Renaissance Revival in the Making.- Ch 5 From Self-Made Entrepreneurs to the Sharing Economy: Milan as a Laboratory for a New Collaborative-Based Approach.- Ch 6 Knowledge City Stockholm at Forefront.- Ch 7 Bournemouth: Urban Beach Not Urban Jungle.- Ch 8 Dublin's and Ireland's Entrepreneurial Revolution.- Ch 9 San Francisco Renaissance: Yet Another Gold Rush?.