Product Description
With this selection of previously published articles, Professor Acs provides a guided tour to the leading ideas in knowledge spillover theory. The volume not only includes some of the foundational writings on the use of knowledge in business and industry, but also brings us right up to date with some seminal articles illustrating the latest thinking on entrepreneurship, the knowledge spillover theory and the knowledge filter. Professor Acs has written a new, author… More >>
Posts Tagged ‘Policy’
Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy: Prelude to a Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
June 30th, 2010Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurship and Innovation
June 22nd, 2010Product Description
This work is targeted at practitioners and researchers who pursue large-scale system change involving multiple organizations and hundreds of people. It looks at how radical change can be achieved in public policy by “change agents” – often people outside government who push for change using certain policy entrepreneurship and innovation tactics. The authors’ ultimate aim is to build an understanding of radical change in open systems – systems without clear boundarie… More >>
Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By
June 3rd, 2010
- ISBN13: 9780300158564
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new businesses is disappointingly high, and the economic impact of most of them disappointingly low, suggesting that enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs and their investors all too often operate under a false set of assumptions. This book shows that the reality of entrepreneurship is decidedly different from the myths that have come to surround it. Scott Shane, a leading expert in e… More >>
