In this book, one of the most highly recognized entrepreneurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can be researched. Entrepreneurship is a phenomenon of tremendous societal importance. It is also an elusive phenomenon, which...

What is Entrepreneurship? -- Entrepreneurship as Research Domain -- This Thing Called “Theory” -- General Design Issues -- Sampling Issues -- Operationalization Issues -- Special Topic: Preparing a “Secondary” Data Set -- Special Topic: Job Creation as the Dependent Variable -- Special...

1. The Challenge -- 2. Theories of Growth, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship -- 3. Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation—The Institutional Framework -- 4. Policies to Stimulate Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- 5. Tax Policy to Stimulate Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- 6. Conclusions: A...

Part 1: Introductory Chapter: 1. Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy -- Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2. State and Markets: Not Whether But How -- 3. Engineering Is Not Entrepreneurship -- 4. A Behavioral Economics Perspective on the Entrepreneurial...