Questioning the Entrepreneurial State : : Status-Quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy

• Superior document: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ; v.53
• Author: Wennberg, Karl.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sandström, Christian.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. The continuing aftereffects of such policies range from the rise...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Contributors
• Part I: Introductory Chapter
• Introduction
• 1 The Contributions to the Present Volume
• 2 Why Is the Entrepreneurial State so Popular?
• 3 Innovation Policy, Inverted
• 4 What Should Governments Do?
• 5 Lessons from Sweden
• 6 Swedish Failures Are Failures of the Entrepreneurial State
• 7 Toward Credible Innovation Policy
• References
• Part II: The Entrepreneurial State: Theoretical Perspectives
• The Entrepreneurial State and the Platform Economy
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The Entrepreneurial State as a Regulator
• 2 Rent Is a Classical Fallacy
• 3 Modern Fallacies
• 4 The Techlash and the Hipster Takeover
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• An Effectual Analysis of Markets and States
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Overview of Effectuation
• 2 Three Dimensions of the Effectual Problem Space
• 2.1 Problem Dimension One: Knightian Uncertainty
• 2.2 Problem Dimension Two: Goal Ambiguity
• 2.3 Problem Dimension Three: Isotropy
• 3 Markets in Effectuation
• 4 States in Effectuation
• 5 Two Frameworks for Tackling Isotropy and Fostering Innovation
• 5.1 Applying the Framework to Innovation Policy
• 6 Markets and States as Outcomes of the Effectual Process
• 7 The Ultimate Innovation: Goals Worth Pursuing
• References
• The Entrepreneurial State: An Ownership Competence Perspective
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State
• 2.1 The Entrepreneurial State
• 2.2 Policy Ineffectiveness
• 2.3 The Effects of Government Ownership
• 3 Ownership Competence
• 4 Government Incompetence in Markets and Firms
• 5 Concluding Remarks
• References
• Innovation Without Entrepreneurship: The Pipe Dream of Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Knowledge-Based View
• 3 Market Failure and the Entrepreneurial State
• 3.1 Bottom-Up, Top-Down, and the Role of the (Entrepreneurial) State
• 3.2 The Evaluation of a Mission
• 4 External Validity and Scalability: The Problem with Arguing from Anecdote
• 5 Concluding Remarks: Can Missions Work?
• References
• Part III: The Entrepreneurial State, Entrepreneurial Universities, and Startups
• Building Local Innovation Support Systems: Theory and Practice
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Umeå Region Innovation System: Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment
• 2.1 Academic Innovation Support in Practice
• 3 Incubator Support Action in Practice: A Conceptual Discussion
• 3.1 Information and Nudging for Utilization
• 3.2 Direct Support in Solving Problems
• 3.3 Coaching Along the Startup Process
• 3.4 Networking and Providing Creative Arenas
• 4 Conceptual Rationales Behind Public Support Systems for Innovation
• 4.1 Direct Interventions May Run the Risk of Causing Market Distortions
• 4.2 Focus on Favorable Conditions
• 5 Discussion and Conclusions
• 5.1 Direct Support with Limits
• References
• Reducing Higher Education Bureaucracy and Reclaiming the Entrepreneurial University