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The editors and authors are pleased to present the book entitled “Entrepreneurship in the Balkans: Diversity, Support and Prospects”, which treats different topics in the field of entrepreneurship and small businesses, such as innovation, risk management, female entrepreneurship, migrant entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, institutional support of entrepreneurial initiatives and small businesses, venture capital, information technologies and small businesses, etc. in the perspective of different Balkans’ countries: Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Romania, Turkey and Slovenia.
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Ramadani, V., Schneider, R.C. (2013). Introduction. In: Ramadani, V., Schneider, R. (eds) Entrepreneurship in the Balkans. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36577-5_1
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