A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Policy

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A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Policy

9781786430939 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by the late David Smallbone, formerly Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University, UK and Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany
Publication Date: 2020 ISBN: 978 1 78643 093 9 Extent: 224 pp
This book makes the case for a change in the research agenda on entrepreneurship policy. An exemplary group of authors addresses the agenda for entrepreneurship policy researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field. A key theme is the importance of context, which is particularly marked where policy transfer is attempted.

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

This book makes the case for a change in the research agenda on entrepreneurship policy. An exemplary group of authors addresses the agenda for entrepreneurship policy researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field. A key theme is the importance of context, which is particularly marked where policy transfer is attempted.

Themes covered include monitoring and evaluation, policies to promote internationalisation and critical approaches to analysing public policy in the field. The book also presents national cases where relevant policy experience is judged as worthy of wider dissemination. These chapters focus on entrepreneurship policy issues in China, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and Poland.

This book will be required reading for researchers and policy makers alike. A key message to researchers is the need to increase their understanding of the policy process as well as their engagement with policy makers. At the same time policy makers need to increase the use of systematically gathered evidence into the policy making process.


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Contributors: N. Arshed, V. Barinova, H. Do, I. Drummond, X. Li, T. Mazwai, I. Mitsui, B. Ndemo, B. Piasecki, J. Potter, A. Rogut, D. Smallbone, D. Storey, M. Xheneti, J. Xu, S. Zemtsov
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Contents:

1. Introduction: Why we need a different research agenda on entrepreneurship policy
David Smallbone and Friederike Welter


PART I KEY THEMES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY
2. Reviewing and revising the rhetoric of enterprise policy: Going back to basics
Norin Arshed and Ian Drummond

3. Placing enterprise policy in context: A policy transfer approach
Mirela Xheneti

4. A research agenda for entrepreneurship policy
David Storey and Jonathan Potter

5. Policies to support internationalisation: Who needs them and what do they need?
David Smallbone and Hang Do


PART II NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
6. China: A focus on local policy
David Smallbone, Xiao Li and Jianbo Xu

7. SMEs and entrepreneurship policy in Russia
Vera Barinova, Stepan Zemtsov and David Smallbone

8. Entrepreneurship and the middle income trap: The case of Poland
Anna Rogut and Bogdan Piasecki

9. Policy issues for SMEs: Practical lessons from Japan''s experiences in the 2010s
Itsutomo Mitsui

10. The role of mobile technologies and inclusive innovation policies in SME development in Sub Saharan Africa
Bitange Ndemo

11. Stimulating entrepreneurship in South Africa’s townships
Thami Mazwai

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