Thisvolume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship,innovation and technology research. Businesses as well as entire economies areincreasingly being confronted by widespread complex systems. Fields such asentrepreneurship and innovation cannot ignore this reality, especially withtheir inherent links to diverse research fields and interdisciplinary methods.However, most methods that allow more detailed analyses of complex problems areeither neglected in mainstream research or are, at best, still emerging.Against this backdrop, this book provides a forum for the discussion ofemergent and neglected methods in the context of complexity inentrepreneurship, innovation and technology research, and also acts as aninspiration for academics across related disciplines to engage more incomplexity research.

Elisabeth Berger has been working as aresearcher and doctoral student at the business start-ups and entrepreneurshipresearch group at the university of Hohenheim since 2013. She has a researchinterest in configurational methods, especially Qualitative ComparativeAnalysis in the context of entrepreneurship. She has a Bachelors degree ininternational business& finance from the Duale Hochschule Stuttgart andthe University of Glamorgan (UK) and a Masters degree in internationalbusiness& economics from the University of Hohenheim.

Andreas Kuckertz is professor ofentrepreneurship at the University of Hohenheim. Moreover, he is an associatemember of the Networked Value Systems Research Group at the University ofVaasa, Finland. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal ofEntrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Journal of Small Business Managementand Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship. Within the European Council forSmall Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) he serves as the Country VicePresident Germany. He is a member of the board of FGF e.V., Germany's leadingacademic association for entrepreneurship. After graduating in media andcommunications, business administration and philosophy at the Universities ofMarburg and Leipzig (M.A. 2001), he finished his doctoral studies in 2005 atthe University of Duisburg-Essen with a thesis on venture capital finance. In2011 he completed his professorial qualification (Habilitation) at theUniversity of Duisburg-Essen. His research on various aspects of entrepreneurship,strategy, and innovation has been published in journals such as Journal ofBusiness Venturing, Journal of Business Research, International Journal ofTechnology Management, Entrepreneurship& Regional Development or StrategicEntrepreneurship Journal.