Public Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship: A Call to Arms

Ács, Zoltán J.; Astebro, Thomas B.; Audretsch, David B.; Robinson, David T.

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“…By just focusing on start-ups, some ecosystems may not have the full range of actors and interactions necessary to upscale businesses. In many economies, there are sufficient new entrants (Acs et al, 2016) but insufficient quality entrants (Nightingale and Coad, 2014). Consequently, the view that a focus on start-ups is 'bad public policy' (Shane, 2009) has gained currency, arguing that policy should focus on growthoriented firms instead (Mason and Brown, 2013).…”

Section: A Critique Of Emergent Policy Frameworkmentioning

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Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

2017

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The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has quickly established itself as one of the latest 'fads' in entrepreneurship research. At face value, this kind of systemic approach to entrepreneurship offers a new and distinctive path for scholars and policy makers to help understand and foster growth-oriented entrepreneurship. However, its lack of specification and conceptual limitations has undoubtedly hindered our understanding of these complex organisms. Indeed, the rapid adoption of the concept has tended to overlook the heterogeneous nature of ecosystems. This paper provides a critical review and conceptualisation of the ecosystems concept: it unpacks the dynamics of the concept; outlines its theoretical limitations; measurement approaches and use in policy-making. It sets out a preliminary taxonomy of different archetypal ecosystems. The paper concludes that entrepreneurial ecosystems are a highly variegated, multi-actor and multi-scalar phenomenon, requiring bespoke policy interventions.

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Section: A Critique Of Emergent Policy Frameworkmentioning

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Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

2017

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“…Most governments in developed countries spend significant amounts of money to stimulate entrepreneurship (Shane 2009;Acs et al 2016). Policies to promote entrepreneurship typically address one of the following: Education to prepare people for an entrepreneurial career, access to finance, business transfer facilities, decreasing the fear of punishment for failure, or alleviating overly burdensome administrative processes.…”

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

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Praag

2016

Industry and Innovation

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Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very scattered and is separated into several disciplines. We provide a summary that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical studies published in the primary economics and management journals on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed.

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“…The broad recognition of the role of entrepreneurship has led to the shaping of many governmental or regional policies aimed at enhancing entrepreneurship and supporting the survival and growth of new businesses [3][4][5][6].…”

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Entrepreneurial Activity in the EU: An Empirical Evaluation of Its Determinants

Rusu

Roman

2017

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Entrepreneurship plays a major role in national economies, being considered one of the main engines of economic growth, and an important contributor to creating new jobs and innovations. Identifying the main determinants of entrepreneurial activity is important for helping the decision makers in adopting adequate measures to support the creation and development of new businesses. The turbulent economic environment in recent years dominated by economic and financial crises, resulting in a reduction in economic growth but also in an increase in unemployment, has led decision makers to turn their attention again to the determinant factors of entrepreneurship. Starting from those stated above, through this paper we aim to investigate the impact of some macroeconomic, individual and business environment-related factors on the dynamics of entrepreneurial activity in 18 European Union (EU) countries for a period of 14 years (2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015). We use three regression models and we apply panel data fixed effect model approach. The results of our study highlight that inflation rate, foreign direct investments, access to finance and total tax rate are the main macroeconomic determinants of entrepreneurship. Also, we find that all individual business-related factors considered in the analysis have a significant impact on total entrepreneurship rate.

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Public Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship: A Call to Arms

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Cited by 99 publications

References 46 publications

Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Activity in the EU: An Empirical Evaluation of Its Determinants

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