Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy, and the Entrepreneurial University

In this paper, we discuss the nature of the university-industry relationship and recommend specific policies to help achieve the goal of greater economic growth. We argue that state-supported research universities can be used to integrate entrepreneurship into state economic development and incubate entrepreneurial companies.Regional entrepreneurship policy is a new stategy that regards economic development as a process that goes from supporting research and development to creating and growing new business...