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

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 and Sustainability Transitions -- 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.