The coupling between entrepreneurship and public policy: Tight in developed countries but loose in development countries

Artikel

In this paper we compare the coupling between entrepreneurship policy and entrepreneurship activity in developed and developing countries. Using new institutional arguments, we argue that developing countries are prone to implement policies that (1) are based on experiences in developed countries which have not proven to transfer fittingly to developing economies, (2) are only partly implemented and are not internally consistent as a result of a lack of resources to do so, and (3) are more beneficial on paper than on actual activity. Following this perspective, the coupling between entrepreneurship policy and entrepreneurship activity is hypothesized to be lower for developing countries than for developed countries. Using GEM data correlating the TEA index of early-phase entrepreneurship with indicators of policies obtained from key expert informants supports this proposition.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Estudios de Economía ; ISSN: 0718-5286 ; Volume: 35 ; Year: 2008 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 195-214 ; Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; New Firms; Startups ; Comparative Studies of Countries
• Thema: entrepreneurship policy ; entrepreneurship activity ; developed vs. developing countries

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schøtt, Thomas ; Wickstrøm Jensen, Kent
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía
• (wo): Santiago de Chile
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/66704
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ