We debate the motivation for and effectiveness of public policies to encourage individuals to become entrepreneurs. Reviewing established evidence we find that most western world policies do not greatly reduce or solve any market failures but instead waste taxpayers' money, encourage those...

1 Introduction: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems -- 2 Building Composite Indicators for Policy Optimization Purposes -- 3 World Technology Frontier: Directed Technical Change and the Relevance of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem -- 4 The Entrepreneurship Paradox: The Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem...

Introduction -- Entrepreneurship and economic growth -- Regional variation in entrepreneurial activity -- Human capital and entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurship and employment growth -- Summary and conclusions -- A formulation of entrepreneurship policy.

to Entrepreneurship -- to the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research -- Entrepreneurship: The Past, the Present, the Future -- The Entrepreneurial Process -- Risk and Uncertainty -- Innovation and Technological Change -- Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies -- Opportunity and the Nature...