The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy
Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the U.S. Knowledge Economy

It seeks to catalyze the emergence of a novel field of policy studies: entrepreneurship policy.

David M. Hart (Edited by)

9780521124188, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 December 2009

308 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

'… Hart's pioneering work provides a collection of studies focusing on government's entrepreneurship policies and seeks to stimulate debate on this topic … policy analysts will prefer Hart's volume's insights into the public sector's role in stimulating entrepreneurship … particularly useful for scholars, policymakers, policy analyst, or students who seek to understand this complex but important area.' Small Business Economics

This volume seeks to catalyze the emergence of a novel field of policy studies: entrepreneurship policy. Practical experience and academic research both point to the central role of entrepreneurs in the process of economic growth and to the importance of public policy in creating the conditions under which entrepreneurial companies can flourish. The contributors, who hail from the disciplines of economics, geography, history, law, management, and political science, seek to crystallize key findings and to stimulate debate about future opportunities for policy-makers and researchers in this area. The chapters include surveys of the economic, social, and cultural contexts for US entrepreneurship policy; assessments of regional efforts to link knowledge producers to new enterprises; explorations of policies that aim to foster entrepreneurship in under-represented communities; detailed analyses of three key industries (biotechnology, e-commerce, and telecommunications); and considerations of challenges in policy implementation.

Part I. The Entrepreneurial Society: What's Governance Got to Do With It?: 1. Entrepreneurship policy: what it is and where it came from David M. Hart
2. Entrepreneurship policy and the strategic management of places David B. Audretsch
3. Entrepreneurship, creativity, and regional economic growth Richard Florida
Part II. High-Tech Entrepreneurship: The University-Industry-Government Connection: 4. Start-ups and spin-offs: collective entrepreneurship between invention and innovation Philip E. Auerswald and Lewis M. Branscomb
5. Entrepreneurship and American research universities: evolution in technology transfer Maryann P. Feldman
6. America's entrepreneurial universities Nathan Rosenberg
Part III. Equity Issues in Entrepreneurship Policy: 7. Venture capital access: is gender an issue? Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart
8. Minority business assistance programs are not designed to produce minority business development Timothy Bates
Part IV. Sector-Specific Issues: 9. Understanding entrepreneurship in the U.S. biotechnology industry: characteristics, facilitating factors, and policy challenges Andrew A. Toole
10. E-Commerce, entrepreneurship, and the law: reassessing a relationship Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
11. Entrepreneurship and government in telecommunications Eli M. Noam
Part V. Implementing Entrepreneurship Policy: 12. Knowledge, power, and entrepreneurs: a first pass at the politics of entrepreneurship policy David M. Hart
13. Entrepreneurship as a state and local economic development strategy Erik R. Pages, Doris Freedman and Patrick Von Bargen
Afterword Michael E. Porter.

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ], Political economy [KCP], Economics [KC], Politics & government [JP], Sociology & anthropology [JH]