Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)

Abstract

This book, which results from the UNU-WIDER project on ‘Promoting Entrepreneurial Capacity’, provides a fresh perspective. The increasing interest by entrepreneurship scholars in development, and by development economics scholars in entrepreneurship are reflected in four research themes: (i) the nature of economic development and its relationship with various concepts of entrepreneurship, (ii) improvements in the availability of data on entrepreneurship in developing countries, (iii) the empirical relationship between measures of entrepreneurship and measures of economic development and (iv) the relationship between the state and entrepreneurs. The various chapters in this book address these four themes and provide evidence of a richly dynamic area of research. Scholars are converging on the importance of institutions for understanding how entrepreneurs can play their innovative, Schumpeterian role to the greatest benefit of society.