Questioning the Entrepreneurial State Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy

The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. The continuing aftereffects of such policies range from the rise...

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Other Authors: Wennberg, Karl (Editor), Sandström, Christian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:International Studies in Entrepreneurship
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introductory Chapter
  • Introduction
  • Part II: The Entrepreneurial State: Theoretical Perspectives
  • The Entrepreneurial State and the Platform Economy
  • An Effectual Analysis of Markets and States
  • The Entrepreneurial State: An Ownership Competence Perspective
  • Innovation Without Entrepreneurship: The Pipe Dream of Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy
  • Part III: The Entrepreneurial State, Entrepreneurial Universities, and Startups
  • Building Local Innovation Support Systems: Theory and Practice
  • Reducing Higher Education Bureaucracy and Reclaiming the Entrepreneurial University
  • Cultural Ideals in the Entrepreneurship Industry
  • Evaluating Evaluations of Innovation Policy: Exploring Reliability, Methods, and Conflicts of Interest
  • Do Targeted R&D Grants toward SMEs Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers?
  • Part IV: The Entrepreneurial State and Sustainability Transitions
  • Third-Generation Innovation Policy: System Transformation or Reinforcing Business as Usual?
  • Less from More: China Built Wind Power, but Gained Little Electricity
  • The Failures of the Entrepreneurial State: Subsidies to Renewable Energies in Europe
  • Directionality in Innovation Policy and the Ongoing Failure of Green Deals: Evidence from Biogas, Bio-ethanol, and Fossil-Free Steel
  • Part V: From the Entrepreneurial State Towards Evidence-Based Innovation Policy
  • Policy Instruments for High-Growth Enterprises
  • Public-Steering and Private-Performing Sectors: Success and Failures in the Swedish Finance, Telecoms, and City Planning Sectors
  • The Digital Platform Economy and the Entrepreneurial State: A European Dilemma
  • Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: An Ecosystem Perspective