A rapidly growing literature in industrial economics and regional economics uses data sets of individual firms or regional firm creation rates to answer the central question: What makes entrepreneurs? Which factors encourage some people to set up their own business and create jobs, and what...

This comprehensive Handbook provides an essential analysis of new venture creation research. The eminent contributors critically discuss and explore the current literature as well as suggest improvements to the field. They reveal a strong sense of both the 'state-of-the-art' (what has and has...

Negotiating managerial labor power and value -- The (re-)emergence of entrepreneurialism in postsocialist China / Lisa Rofel -- Italian legacies of capital and labor / Sylvia Yanagisako -- One fashion, two nations : Italian-Chinese collaborations / Simona Segre Reinach -- On generation / Sylvia...

This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering an industry, and outlines possible implications for public policy. Externalities can arise from entrepreneurial activities such as spillover benefits from new innovations and...