Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

This guide has been prepared by Business Library staff to introduce the reader to resources, primarily academic, on entrepreneurship, innovation, and business leaders. For information on starting your own business, see the library-prepared guide.

For further research assistance, please contact library staff at buslib@ivey.uwo.ca

Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth
An annual collection of essays outlining current research on the topic.

Advances in the study of entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth
An annual collection of essays outlining current research on the topic.

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
A good source of short introductory articles with a bibliography.

Complete Canadian Small Business Guide
An excellent guide to establishing and operating a business in Canada.

Encyclopedia of entrepreneurship
A collection of long articles with extensive bibliographies.

Entrepreneurship 2000
A collection of long articles with extensive bibliographies.

Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Website
This website indexes articles published in the annual Frontiers of Entrepreneurship beginning in 1981. Some articles are available in full-text.

Oxford Reference Online Premium Licensed to UWO users only.
This website provides access to a number of dictionaries published by Oxford University Press.

State of the art of entrepreneurship
A collection of long articles with bibliographies.

Venture capital handbook
A practical guide to raising venture capital.

Creative Ability in Business - Catalogue Search

Entrepreneurship - Catalogue Search

New Business Enterprises - Catalogue Search

New Products - Catalogue Search

Small Business Management - Catalogue Search

Technological Innovations Economic Aspects - Catalogue Search

Technological Innovations Management - Catalogue Search

Venture Capital - Catalogue Search

Entrepreneurship - Electronic Books
This search in Western Libraries' Catalogue finds a list of electronic books related to entrepreneurship available from Western Libraries. (Please note that this list may not be complete. Check for individual titles by doing a title search in the Catalogue.)

Entrepreneurship - Electronic Journals
This search in Western Libraries' Catalogue finds a list of electronic journals related to entrepreneurship available from Western Libraries. (Please note this list may not be complete. Check for individual journals by doing a title search in the Catalogue.)

Entrepreneurship Periodicals - Catalogue Search
This search in Western Libraries' Catalogue lists periodicals in all formats related to entrepreneurship that are held by Western Libraries. (Please note this list may not be complete. Check for individual titles by doing a title search in the Catalogue.)

Business Periodicals Index.
This paper resource lists articles written between 1958 and July 2001.

Canadian Business Index
Combined with Canadian Business Periodicals Index, this paper resource covers the period from 1975 to 1992.

CBCA Business Licensed to UWO users only.
This collection provides in-depth access to a broad range of Canadian business periodicals. It satisfies the information needs of business professionals, journalists, students, and teachers interested in business issues in Canada.

Economic Literature (EconLit) 1969 - current  Licensed to UWO users only.
EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

ProQuest Direct - ABI/Inform - Global Research Licensed to UWO users only.
This database provides detailed coverage of business, economic and political conditions by indexing and abstracting the information that is contained in over 1,500 journals and magazines. In addition, the full text and/or the complete image is provided for over 800 of the periodicals. Abstracts may be found as far back as 1971 and the full image is often provided after 1987. Updates are continuous and the most current issues of some magazines are available as soon as they are published.

Core publications in entrepreneurship
This website from Saint Louis University provides a list of Refereed Scholarly Journals related to entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship Corner, from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University.
Entrepreneurship Corner is a wonderful free collection of more than 1,600 videos and podcasts related to entrepreneurship, innovation, product development, and other business topics, including lectures from thought leaders in the field. Options offered on a top toolbar include Popular Videos, Podcasts, Speakers, Browse, and Subscribe, as well as a Search box.

Entrepreneurship Research Alliance -UBC
The ERA is a multi-disciplinary and multi-university research project coordinated from the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Centre in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In addition, the ERA is affiliated with researchers at a number of Canadian universities including Brock University, Carleton University, HEC, Laval University, St. Francis Xavier University, St. Mary's University, the Université de Montréal, the Université de Québec á Trois Riviéres, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto.

EntreWorld - Resources for Entrepreneurs
A collection of resources focused for the small business owner from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.

Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Website
This website indexes articles published in the annual Frontiers of Entrepreneurship beginning in 1981. Some articles are available in full-text.

MINT Research Centre - McMaster University
A collection of resources from the Management of Innovation and New Technology Research Center at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University.

Small Business Advancement Center - University of Central Arkansas
A collection of resources from the Small Business Advancement National Center at the University of Central Arkansas.

Small Business Research and Policy - Industry Canada
The website includes an extensive database of research literature on the subject of small business and entrepreneurship, recent research reports on small business financing, small business statistics, a discussion forum, and lists of researchers and policy development offices across Canada.

United States Small Business Administration
A collection of resources related to small businesses from this independent federal agency of the United States government.

American Business Leaders
This two volume set in the Reference Collection of the Business Library presents one or two page biographies with a short bibliography of additional sources.

Business Leader Profiles for Students
This book in the Reference Collection of the Business Library presents two or three page biographies with a bibliography of additional sources.

Capitalists and Financiers - Catalogue Search
This search in Western Libraries' Catalogue finds resources held by Western Libraries in all formats about entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur Magazine: encyclopedia of entrepreneurs
This book in the Reference Collection of the Business Library presents one or two page biographies.

International Directory of Business Biographies
This multi-volume set in the Reference Collection of the Business Library provides 2 to 5 page biographies with a list of sources for further information.

Radicals and Visionaries
This book in the Reference Collection of the Business Library presents four page biographies of 20th century entrepreneurs.

Women Who Mean Business
This book in the Reference Collection of the Business Library presents five page biographies.