Minds, Brains, and Doxa for Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Diverse Entrepreneurs

This book explores ways in which inclusive entrepreneurship enhances bottom-up entrepreneurial activity for economic and societal transformation, particularly in remote areas. It focuses on the role of stakeholders in shaping a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem (doxa) and how entrepreneurial ecosystems in larger cities and urban regions differ from those in rural regions, which often have weaker economic infrastructures. It examines the relationship between the internal and external entrepreneurial ecosystems in higher education for fostering entrepreneurial mindsets. Topics such as women and diversity in entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education are explored. This integration of inclusive and emancipatory aspects in entrepreneurship research and practice is of benefit to researchers, scholars, academics, practitioners, and policy makers interested in and have a passion for (re)building entrepreneurial ecosystems.


Kristen Mikkelsen is the Director of Entrepreneurship, Gender & Education at the Jackstädt-Center Flensburg, University of Flensburg (Flensburg, Germany). Her research interests include gender in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education, diversity and inclusion and entrepreneurship and emancipation. Among other projects, she is currently responsible for the implementation of a campus wide and interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education program (@ventureDock funded by the Federal Ministry for Economy and Climate Protection [BMWK]).

Annika Wolf is Professor of Sustainable Transformation at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer (Germany). She has been the primary recipient of multiple research projects, among others, for implementing an interdisciplinary entrepreneurial culture in higher education intuitions (HEI) (@MeerCommunity funded by the Federal Ministry for Economy and Climate Protection [BMWK]) and entrepreneurship education in HEI (funded by INTERREG Deutschland/Nederland).