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....

This study gives insights on the effects of regulation across 4 areas: owner-manager perceptions in the literature, evidence of correlations between regulation and firm-level growth, effects of small firms receiving specific exemptions from regulation, importance of the informal economy in...