Institutions and Economic growth

The collective volume aims to discuss and investigate the interaction of entrepreneurship, institutions and support mechanisms through the lens of different aspects indicatively listed below:
 Building effective support mechanisms and tools towards supporting entrepreneurship in the EU. Development of good practices.
 Evaluation of institutional framework towards supporting entrepreneurship and analyzing systematic and strategic provision of entrepreneurship support in the EU.
 Comparison of different approaches and frameworks of entrepreneurship support towards fostering of the entrepreneurial activities in different cultures.
 Exploring the interaction between the EU Structural Funds and entrepreneurship.
 Entrepreneurship and EU initiatives of supporting employment.
 Investigating the role of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs as transformational agents towards improving the entrepreneurial eco-system and environment.
 Smart specialization and entrepreneurship which meets the modern social and environmental challenges such as refugee crisis and climate change.
 Sectoral approaches in the EU such as renewable energy and entrepreneurship, green strategies and green growth, refugee entrepreneurship and refugee crisis, social entrepreneurship and social challenges, rural entrepreneurship and rural development, female entrepreneurship and equality, microfinance institutions and entrepreneurship, etc.
 Explore case studies from local, regional and national level in the EU context and conduct comparisons.
 Supporting an effective entrepreneurship education through university-industry initiatives, innovation centres, etc.
 Investigate a wide spectrum of determinants interlinked with entrepreneurial financing such as financial stability, taxation system, microfinance, etc.
 Present the results of programmes such as HORIZON and Interreg relevant to the scope of the edited book.

This article (report presented at the Conference of the Rectors of the Italian Universities – CRUI - The Great CRUI 2019 Meetings, “Universities For Sustainable Development”, 29-30 May 2019, Udine, Synthesis by: Riccardo Cappellin, Leonardo Becchetti, Marco Bellandi, based on the contributions by Riccardo Cappellin, Enrico Ciciotti, Maurizio Baravelli, Marco Bellandi, Leonardo Becchetti, Fiorello Cortiana, Franz Foti, Gioacchino Garofoli, Giuseppe Longhi, Enrico Marelli, Carlo Pescetti, Luciano Pilotti, Emanuele Plata, Enzo Reali) illustrates the guidelines for a new European economic policy, expanding the indications previously proposed in the document signed by 70 Italian economists and published in Academia.edu in December 2018 (Group "Growth, Investment and Territory, 2018), and which is widely circulated on an international scale. This document indicates that the relaunch of growth in Europe requires, alongside the objective of stability of the financial system and reduction of the public deficits and debts, also a new economic policy, which aims at an expansion of the domestic demand in Europe, which pulls (according to a "demand led" strategy) innovations and investments for a reconversion towards new productions, capable of giving an answer to the new needs for a better quality of life of the European citizens. The European Union must not only use monetary policy or public budget policy, but also a third instrument of economic policy, which is that of an "industrial policy", whose strategic lines must be coordinated on a European scale. In particular, a field of intervention of crucial importance for a new European Industrial Strategy is to promote the development, especially in urban areas and in city networks, of those new goods and services, which are linked to the increasingly important collective needs for citizens and that can have a very significant economic importance in terms of employment and production, such as a) food; b) accommodation; c) mobility and logistics; d) culture and leisure and media; e) health, social assistance and education; f) environment, energy saving and spatial planning.