This paper seeks to map out the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurship as an independent field in the social science literature from the early 1990’s to 2009. Our analysis indicates that entrepreneurship has grown steadily during the 1990’s but has truly emerged as a legitimate academic...

The emergence of a new mode of knowledge production, the formation of a 'Triple Helix' of university-industry-government, and the advent of the academic entrepreneur - all these different developments point, in one way or another, to the increased attention that is being paid to the economic...