The entrepreneurship debate in Europe : a matter of history and culture?

In this introductory chapter, we would like to talk about the richness and the specifici-ties of the European research in entrepreneurship. First we will approach entrepreneur-ship research from historical perspective thus positioning and identifying the European cultural roots and re-emergence for entrepreneurship debates. This positioning also ad-dresses attention to the specificities that characterise the current European research. In the second section we will explore these specificities aiming to advance the debate of the future European approach to entrepreneurship research. Finally, in the last section we will present how this book participates to these debates by introducing our authors and their studies. As a result we wish to provide some new insights into the landscape of entrepreneurship research in Europe and thus advance the European specific debate on entrepreneurship research.