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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Springer International Publishing AG
2022.
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| Colección: | International Studies in Entrepreneurship
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I: Introductory Chapter
- Introduction
- 1 The Contributions to the Present Volume
- 2 Why Is the Entrepreneurial State so Popular?
- 3 Innovation Policy, Inverted
- 4 What Should Governments Do?
- 5 Lessons from Sweden
- 6 Swedish Failures Are Failures of the Entrepreneurial State
- 7 Toward Credible Innovation Policy
- References
- Part II: The Entrepreneurial State: Theoretical Perspectives
- The Entrepreneurial State and the Platform Economy
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The Entrepreneurial State as a Regulator
- 2 Rent Is a Classical Fallacy
- 3 Modern Fallacies
- 4 The Techlash and the Hipster Takeover
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- An Effectual Analysis of Markets and States
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Overview of Effectuation
- 2 Three Dimensions of the Effectual Problem Space
- 2.1 Problem Dimension One: Knightian Uncertainty
- 2.2 Problem Dimension Two: Goal Ambiguity
- 2.3 Problem Dimension Three: Isotropy
- 3 Markets in Effectuation
- 4 States in Effectuation
- 5 Two Frameworks for Tackling Isotropy and Fostering Innovation
- 5.1 Applying the Framework to Innovation Policy
- 6 Markets and States as Outcomes of the Effectual Process
- 7 The Ultimate Innovation: Goals Worth Pursuing
- References
- The Entrepreneurial State: An Ownership Competence Perspective
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State
- 2.1 The Entrepreneurial State
- 2.2 Policy Ineffectiveness
- 2.3 The Effects of Government Ownership
- 3 Ownership Competence
- 4 Government Incompetence in Markets and Firms
- 5 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Innovation Without Entrepreneurship: The Pipe Dream of Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Knowledge-Based View
- 3 Market Failure and the Entrepreneurial State
- 3.1 Bottom-Up, Top-Down, and the Role of the (Entrepreneurial) State
- 3.2 The Evaluation of a Mission
- 4 External Validity and Scalability: The Problem with Arguing from Anecdote
- 5 Concluding Remarks: Can Missions Work?
- References
- Part III: The Entrepreneurial State, Entrepreneurial Universities, and Startups
- Building Local Innovation Support Systems: Theory and Practice
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Umeå Region Innovation System: Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment
- 2.1 Academic Innovation Support in Practice
- 3 Incubator Support Action in Practice: A Conceptual Discussion
- 3.1 Information and Nudging for Utilization
- 3.2 Direct Support in Solving Problems
- 3.3 Coaching Along the Startup Process
- 3.4 Networking and Providing Creative Arenas
- 4 Conceptual Rationales Behind Public Support Systems for Innovation
- 4.1 Direct Interventions May Run the Risk of Causing Market Distortions
- 4.2 Focus on Favorable Conditions
- 5 Discussion and Conclusions
- 5.1 Direct Support with Limits
- References
- Reducing Higher Education Bureaucracy and Reclaiming the Entrepreneurial University
