The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy

2006 ◽  
pp. 161-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Audretsch ◽  
Max C. Keilbach ◽  
Erik E. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurship Policy

scholarly journals An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Arenal ◽  
Claudio Feijoo ◽  
Ana Moreno ◽  
Cristina Armuña ◽  
Sergio Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
And Shifts

Purpose Academic research into entrepreneurship policy is particularly interesting due to the increasing relevance of the topic and since knowledge about the evolution of themes in this field is still rather limited. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the key concepts, topics, trends and shifts that have shaped the entrepreneurship policy research agenda during the period 1990–2016. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses text mining techniques, cluster analysis and complementary bibliographic data to examine the evolution of a corpus of 1,048 academic papers focused on entrepreneurship-related policies and published during the period 1990–2016 in ten relevant journals. In particular, the paper follows a standard text mining workflow: first, as text is unstructured, content requires a set of pre-processing tasks and then a stemming process. Then, the paper examines the most repeated concepts within the corpus, considering the whole period 1990–2016 and also in five-year terms. Finally, the paper conducts a k-means clustering to divide the collection of documents into coherent groups with similar content. The analyses in the paper also include geographical particularities considering three regional sub-corpora, distinguishing those articles authored in the European Union (EU), the USA and South and Eastern Asia, respectively. Findings Results of the analysis show that inclusion, employment and regulation-related papers have largely dominated the research in the field, evolving from an initial classical approach to the relationship between entrepreneurship and employment to a wider, multidisciplinary perspective, including the relevance of management, geographies and narrower topics such as agglomeration economics or internationalisation instead of the previous generic sectorial approaches. The text mining analysis also reveals how entrepreneurship policy research has gained increasing attention and has become both more open, with a growing cooperation among researchers from different affiliations, and more sophisticated, with concepts and themes that moved the research agenda forward, closer to the priorities of policy implementation. Research limitations/implications The paper identifies main trends and research gaps in the field of entrepreneurship policy providing actionable knowledge by presenting the spectrum of both over-explored and understudied research themes in the field. In practical terms the results of the text mining analysis can be interpreted as a compass to navigate the entrepreneurship policy research agenda. Practical implications The paper presents the heterogeneity of topics under research in the field, reinforcing the concept of entrepreneurship as a multidisciplinary and dynamic domain. Therefore, the definition and adoption of a certain policy agenda in entrepreneurship should consider multiple aspects (needs, objectives, stakeholders, expected outputs, etc.) to be comprehensive and aligned with its complexity. In addition, the paper shows how text mining techniques could be used to map the research activity in a particular field, contributing to the challenge of linking research and policy. Originality/value The exploratory nature of text mining allows us to obtain new knowledge and reveals hidden patterns from large quantities of documents/text data, representing an opportunity to complement other qualitative reviews. In this sense, the main value of this paper is not to advise on the future configuration of entrepreneurship policy as a research topic, but to unwrap the past by unveiling how key themes of the entrepreneurship policy research agenda have emerged, evolved and/or declined over time as a foundation on which to build further developments.

scholarly journals Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 414-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Brown ◽  
Suzanne Mawson ◽  
Colin Mason
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Growth Firms

Millennials empowerment: youth entrepreneurship for sustainable development

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikedinachi K. Ogamba
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Complementary Action ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge and theory building in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship development. Design/methodology/approach This paper critically examines the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN) programme and its relevance as a youth economic empowerment programme through the lens of the UNDP Youth Strategy entry points for promoting economic empowerment of youth and extant literature on critical youth empowerment using participatory development theories. Findings While YouWiN is a significant intervention towards entrepreneurship development, it presents some flaws and limitations in the design and implementation process, which may challenge sustainable economic development. Hence, there is a need to explore the millennials empowerment paradigm in light of three key complementary action-oriented approaches to youth entrepreneurship development. Originality/value This paper proposes three key complementary action-oriented approaches to youth entrepreneurship policy/programme design, implementation and evaluation for the multilateral agencies, private and voluntary sectors. These are in the form of facilitating participatory engagement and diversity, managing drivers (push/pull factors) of entrepreneurship, and ensuring access to enablers/support. There is the need for further debate and critical inputs to improve theory building towards a normative framework in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship. This contributes to ending poverty, and promoting intergenerational equity and sustainable development.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Tsapko-Piddubna
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asset Building ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The primary intension behind this study is to assess and compare policies that deliver inclusive outcomes to economic growth and development across economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The EU and Norway (the most inclusive country in 2018) were added into the study as a benchmark countries. As a result of the comparative analysis based on the World Economic Forum Inclusive Growth Policy and Institution Framework, we argue in favor of policies that would increase broad-based human economic opportunities and consequently both equality, and economic well-being of CEE economies. Positive strong influence on inclusive growth and development is associated with the employment and labor compensation policy that allows people directly increase their incomes; the basic services and infrastructure policy which is a necessary ground for present and future human and economic development; the asset building and entrepreneurship policy should provide diminishing inequality and rising economic opportunities by fostering medium and small business creation and enlarging possibilities of home and other asset ownership. In addition, an effective and inclusive redistribution state system of CEE economies should accentuate on supporting broad-based economic opportunities (like productive employment possibilities, asset building and entrepreneurship possibilities), along with infrastructure and human basic services development, rather than solely on social fiscal transfers.

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