Entrepreneurship Research: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects looks back at these 10 years of rewarding outstanding research and contains state-of-the-art insights into the field of entrepreneurship and small business research. Contributors to this volume include Zoltan J Acs, Howard E Aldrich, David B Audretsch, William J Baumol, Giacomo Becattini, David Birch, Arnold C Cooper, William Gardner, Ian C MacMillan, Paul Reynolds, Charles Sabel and David Storey.

Entrepreneurship Research: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects offers both the scholar and entrepreneur insights into the area of small business and entrepreneurship research. It should be of interest to a broad spectrum of academic fields and disciplines, ranging from management to economics, sociology, and political science to regional science.

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Contents:

• Editors Introduction
• The Development of the Field of Entrepreneurship (A C Cooper)
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Toward a Program of Research (W J Baumol)
• The Entrepreneurial Society (D B Audretsch)
• What to Make of the Changes in Industrial Districts? Three Questions (C Sabel)
• Some Notes on the Empirical Basis of the Role Attributed to Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the Thought of Alfred Marshall (G Becattini)
• Trends and Directions in Entrepreneurship Research (H E Aldrich)
• What Have We Learned? (D Birch)
• Understanding Entrepreneurship: Achievements and Opportunities — A Personal Assessment (P Reynolds)
• A Critical Mess Approach to Entrepreneurship Scholarship (W Gartner)
• A Formulation of Entrepreneurship Policy (Z J Acs)
• Social Wealth Creation via Experimental Entrepreneurial Philanthropy (I C MacMillan), Public Policy on Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Recent Years (D Storey)