Uwe Fachinger

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the margins of entrepreneurship at which small business owners are working almost on their own with no or very few employees, and where some work for low returns and run firms that lack stability and/or prosperous dynamics.

TL;DR: The GAL research network has been run successfully and has achieved its major research objectives, and a future focus for research can now be outlined for systematically planned studies scientifically exploring the benefits of AAL technologies for senior citizens, in particular with respect to quality of life and the quality and efficiency of health care.

TL;DR: This publication informs about the goals and structure of GAL, including first outcomes, as well as to discuss the potentials and possible barriers of such highly interdisciplinary research projects in the field of health-enabling technologies for pervasive healthcare.

TL;DR: For the past two decades the subject of entrepreneurship has been revived in public discourse and economic debate as discussed by the authors, and the call for entrepreneurship tends to become a call for self-employment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the service sector trends in relation to the issue of entrepreneurship and conclude that very much of the revival of entrepreneurship goes hand in hand with the broader service sector trend and within the new service sector domain, not always spectacular new firms with dynamics towards growth and job creation exist but also those which are small and remain small as micro firms.