This paper explains the increasing popularity of social entrepreneurship and analyzes its company law consequences. Faced with tight budgets, governments are looking to the private sector to develop businesses that serve the interests of the public. Social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum as...

There is not an overwhelming case to be made that the Federal Reserve System (FRS) should be analyzed as a bureau instead of as a firm or set of firms. Accordingly, I discuss the formation of the FRS in relation to the framework developed by William Gartner for describing the phenomenon of new...

This paper reflects on the policy formation process in the burgeoning area of government’s involvement venture capital finance (VC) over the two decades 2000-2020. It looks at both why and how government VC funds (GVC) have evolved. The increasingly common vehicle of ‘hybrid’ co-investment...

Business clients often view lawyers as obstructionists who do little more than tell them they cannot do what they want to do. These perceptions are particularly prevalent among creative, energetic entrepreneurs who have crafted an innovative product or service to satisfy a market need and are...

Literature suggests that arts incubators serve cultural, economic, and community development functions by supporting individual artists, nonprofit arts organizations, and creative industries entrepreneurs. The outputs of arts incubators include new arts-based businesses, showings of incubated...

The literature on university entrepreneurship is rapidly expanding, in both the United States and Europe. Since the literature is also fairly fragmented, however, we submit that it is time to take stock of the current knowledge to provide directions for future research and guideposts for policy...

As barriers to globalization have steadily diminished, the number of entrepreneurial and noncommercial expatriates have grown from a trickle to a torrent. Much of what we know about expatriatism may not apply to this new breed of expatriates. A four-quadrant typology of expatriates draws...

L’articolo si prefigge di analizzare l’evoluzione, a cavallo degli ultimi anni di crisi, dell’intervento pubblico a supporto del capitale di rischio tramite strumenti innovativi di partnership con operatori privati. L’intervento pubblico origina da fallimenti del mercato del capitale di...

Recent economic research has shown that fixed-price quality competition in the NHS in England is benefiting patients and taxpayers. This research has focused primarily on important outcomes of competition, for example the number of lives saved. In this paper we focus on the mechanism of...