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Title The emergence of entrepreneurship policy : governance, start-up, and growth in the U.S. knowledge economy / edited by David M. Hart
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations
Contents PART ONE : THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SOCIETY: WHAT'S GOVERNANCE GOT TO DO WITH IT? -- Entrepreneurship policy: what it is and where it came from / David M. Hart -- Entrepreneurship policy and the strategic management of places / David B. Audretsch -- Entrepreneurship, creativity, and regional economic growth / Richard Florida -- PART TWO : HIGH-TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT CONNECTION -- Start-ups and spin-offs: collective entrepreneurship between invention and innovation / Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb -- Entrepreneurship and American research universities: evolution in technology transfer / Maryann P. Feldman -- America's entrepreneurial universities / Nathan Rosenberg -- PART THREE : EQUITY ISSUES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY -- Venture capital access: is gender an issue? / Candida G. Brush [and others] -- Minority business assistance programs are not designed to produce minority business development / Timothy Bates -- PART FOUR : SECTOR-SPECIFIC ISSUES -- Understanding entrepreneurship in the U.S. biotechnology industry: characteristics, facilitating factors, and policy challenges / Andrew A. Toole -- E-commerce, entrepreneurship, and the law: reassessing a relationship / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger -- PART FIVE : IMPLEMENTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY -- Knowledge, power, and entrepreneurs: a first pass at the politics of entrepreneurship policy / David M. Hart -- Entrepreneurship as a state and local economic development strategy / Erik R. Pages, Doris Freedman, Patrick Von Bargen
Summary Seeks to catalyze the emergence of a new 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-292) and index
Notes English
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Subject High technology industries -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses
Entrepreneurship -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses
Knowledge management -- United States -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship -- Government policy -- United States.
Knowledge management -- United States.
High technology industries -- Government policy -- United States.
Entrepreneurship -- Government policy
High technology industries -- Government policy
Knowledge management
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Hart, David M., 1961-
LC no. 2002041554
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