This volume provides a lens to analyze public policy decisions involving entrepreneurship.

The effects of entrepreneurship on a nationaleconomy are assumed to be widespread, influencing new products, prices,innovation, and productivity. Thus, a nation

Experts in public economics and financial economics discuss the special role of venture capital and if public policy should promote the venture capital industry

A calculation of the social returns to innovation /Benjamin F. Jones and Lawrence H. Summers --Innovation and human capital policy /John Van Reenen --Immigratio

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge s