Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 What Is Enterprise Policy and Why Is it Important? -- 2 Government, Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century -- 3 Filling the Finance Gap -- 4 Regional Enterprise Policy -- 5 Early...

"The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change. The 1970s in the UK saw the beginning of the end for interventionism and 'big government' and the emergence of a new free market, economic liberalism....

"Governments in developed and developing economies have increasingly turned to entrepreneurship and small businesses for economic growth, dynamism and economic and social inclusion. Policies seeking to encourage, support or otherwise influence these forms of economic activity are varied but...