Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical ...

In order to understand the status quo of entrepreneurship education in universities in Shanghai, this article draws data from a survey on college students in Shanghai. The sample covers a wide range of students from different majors, school years, and regional backgrounds. The analysis focuses on their recognition of entrepreneurship education, the curriculum, and the preparation of entrepreneu...

Governments around the world have begun to look to small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as sources of employment and economic growth for their domestic economies. However, neither public policy makers nor researchers have a solid understanding of which government policies are most likely to be most effective. We examined government policies towards entrepreneurship in three Latin American ...

Entrepreneurship is widely believed to be a main source of economic growth. This paper’s objective is threefold: (1) to estimate the impact of entrepreneurship measured by the birth of businesses on urban employment and income growth; (2) to examine how entrepreneurship supported by government guaranteed loans compares with market entrepreneurship regarding its impact on urban growth; and (3) t...

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework that examines the role government policy plays in the development of entrepreneurship and its impact on economic development. The study builds on existing literature on entrepreneurship, economic development and government policy as it relates to entrepreneurial practices. The outcomes of literature review propose two hypotheses. Integrating ent...

Based on the present situation of the domestic development of entrepreneurship education, the research analyzes the necessary conditions for entrepreneurship education courses and teaching, to build the university students' entrepreneurship education quality evaluation system, an empirical analysis on the analytical hierarchy process. By aimed at the design of index system, fully interprets the...

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the case by economists, bu...

Research about the combination between strategy and entrepreneurship is in the early stages. While the benefits of combining entrepreneurship and strategy are well established, specific details and relations between common elements of strategy and entrepreneurship as a concept remain under-developed and unsubstantiated. This paper explores the relation between entrepreneurship and strategy. The...