Introduction -- Part I. Understznding entrepreneurial problems -- entrepreneurial work experience -- Part II. Major entrepreneurial paradigms -- Small business entrepreneurship: is a caterpillar a butterfly? -- The positivistic social science of entrepreneurship -- Part III. A general scientific theory of entrepreneurial creativity -- Modernizing Schumpeter: toward a new general theory of entrepreneurship -- The core evidence -- A general theory and its explanatory power -- Part IV. Auxiliary theories -- Entrepreneurial creativity -- Entrepreneurial dynamics -- Developing entrepreneurial creativity -- Towards a macro theory of entrepreneurial creativity -- Some implications and conclusions.