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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
