TY - BOOK AU - Smallbone,David TI - Entrepreneurship and public policy SN - 1845421175 PY - 2010/// CY - Cheltenham, UK PB - Elgar Research Collection KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Government policy KW - Small business N1 - Includes bibliographical references; V.1; Entrepreneurship, public policy and research; Emergence of entrepreneurship policy; Brett Anitra Gilbert, David B. Audretsch, Patricia P. McDougall --; Linking entrepreneurship and economic growth; Sander Wennekers, Roy Thurik --; Entrepreneurship, economic growth and public policy; Zoltan J. Acs, Laszlo Szerb --; Market justification for policy on small enterprise development; Sanal Kumar Velayudhan --; Role of government in SME development in transition economies; David Smallbone, Friederike Welter --; SME policy, academic research and the growth of ignorance, mythical concepts, myths, assumptions, rituals and confusions; Allan A. Gibb --; Government discourses on entrepreneurship : issues of legitimization, subjugation, and power; Lew Perren, Peter L. Jennings --; Innovation, technology and entrepreneurship; Sustaining innovation and growth : public policy support for entrepreneurship; David B. Audretsch --; Innovating SMEs and regions : the need for policy intelligence and interactive policies; Claire Nauwelaers, RenWintjes --; Internationalization of small and medium sized enterprises : a policy perspective; Zoltan J. Acs; ... [et al.] --; Do entrepreneurship programmes raise entrepreneurial intention of science and engineering students? The effect of learning, inspiration and resources; Vangelis Souitaris, Stefania Zerbinati, Andreas Al-Laham --; Taxation policy and regulation; Tax policy and entrepreneurship : new time series evidence; Donald Bruce, Mohammad Mohsin --; Tax policy and entrepreneurial entry; William M. Gentry, R. Glenn Hubbard --; Taxation and the performance of technology based small firms in the U.K.; Panikkos Poutziouris; ...[et al.] --; Entry regulation as a barrier to entrepreneurship; Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven, Raghuram Rajan --; Why does employment legislation not damage small firms?; Paul Edwards, Monder Ram, John Black --; Burden on business? Reviewing the evidence base on regulation and small business performance; John Kitching --; Intervention in the market for business advice; Public advisory services, theory and practice; Dan Jhalmarsson, Anders W. Johansson --; Role of trust and contract in the supply of business advice; Robert J. Bennett, Paul J.A. Robson --; Business advice : the influence of distance; Robert J. Bennett, William A. Bratton, Paul J.A. Robson --; Regional perspectives on entrepreneurship; Targeting firm births and economic regeneration in a lagging region; Peter Johnson --; Impact of sector, specialisation, and space on business birth rates in the United Kingdom : a challenge for policy?; Michael Anyadike-Danes, Mark Hart --; Entrepreneurship and development : the role of clusters; Hector O. Rocha --; Development of industrial clusters and public policy; Frank McDonald, Dimitrios Tsagdis, Qihai Huang --; Clustering small enterprise : lessons from policy experience in New Zealand; Martin Perry --; Governance and the entrepreneurial economy : a comparative analysis of three regions; Rachel Parker; V.2; Approaches to policy evaluation; Methods of evaluating the impact of public policies to support small businesses : the six steps to heaven; David J. Storey --; Evaluating European support for business development : evidence from the structural funds in Scotland; Ivan Turok --; Evaluating policy implementation : the European Union's small and medium sized enterprise policies in Galicia and Sardinia; Sarah C.E. Batterbury --; Does more mean worse? Three decades of enterprise policy in the Tees Valley; Francis J. Greene, Kevin F. Mole, David J. Storey --; Evaluating financial support; Evaluating public sector R&D programs : the advanced technology program's investment in wavelength references for optical fiber communications; Albert N. Link, John T. Scott --; Evaluating a Dutch scheme for encouraging research and development; Marten van den Berg, Asje van Dijk, Novan Hulst --; Public/private technology partnerships : evaluating SBIR supported research; David B. Audretsch, Albert N. Link, John T. Scott --; Government as venture capitalist : the long run impact of the SBIR program; Josh Lerner --; Government policy towards entrepreneurial finance : innovation investment funds; Douglas Cumming --; When bureaucrats meet entrepreneurs : the design of effective'public venture capital' programmes; Josh Lerner --; Estimating additionality and leverage : the interplay between public and private sector equity finance in Ireland; Mark Hart, Helena Lenihan --; Grant assistance and small firm development in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; Stephen Roper, Nola Hewitt-Dundas --; Loan guarantees : costs of default and benefits to small firms; Allan L. Riding, George Haines, Jr. --; Why do minority business development programs generate so little minority business development; Timothy Bates --; Evaluating'soft' support; Evaluating the effect of soft business support upon small firm performance; Colin Wren, David J. Storey --; Differential gains from business link support and advice : a treatment effects approach; Kevin Mole; ...[et al.] --; Economic impact of small business development center counseling activities in the United States, 1990-1991; James J. Chrisman, Frances Katrishen --; Strategic, administrative, and operating assistance : the value of outside consulting to pre-venture entrepreneurs; James J. Chrisman --; 'Business advisers' impact on SMEs : an agency theory approach; Kevin Mole --; SME policy support in Britain since the 1990s : what have we learnt?; Robert Bennett --; Inter-firm network policies and firm performance : evaluating the impact of initiatives in the United Kingdom; Robert Huggins --; Assessment of a venture creation programme : the case of Shell LiveWIRE; F.J. Greene, D.J. Storey --; Exploring the link, among small firms, between management training and firm performance : a comparison between the UK and other OECD countries; David J. Storey --; Do preferential procurement programs benefit minority business?; Timothy Bates, Darrell Williams ER -