Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship: Coveted by Policymakers but Impervious to Top-Down Policymaking

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Differentiating various types of entrepreneurs provides clues to the puzzle of why top-down policies often fail to create Schumpeterian entrepreneurship and the ecosystems where it thrives. Schumpeterian entrepreneurship is intrinsically contrarian, whereas public policy has a bias toward incremental innovation and replication of past success. If central planners knew what the next radical innovation would be, there would be no need for Schumpeterian entrepreneurs. Schumpeterian entrepreneurs create not only companies but also institutions in the entrepreneurial support system. These ever-evolving structures are too complex to design, and central planning instead reduces the space for organic institutional innovation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1395

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; New Firms; Startups ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Capitalist Systems: Property Rights
• Subject: Entrepreneurship policy ; High-impact entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Schumpeterian entrepreneurship

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Henrekson, Magnus ; Kärnä, Anders ; Sanandaji, Tino
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240538
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET