Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development: Policy, Practice and Challenges

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Dr Michael T Schaper, Professor Robert A Blackburn
Gower Publishing, Ltd., Nov 1, 2012 - Business & Economics - 340 pages

Recent decades have seen substantial growth in the range of assistance programmes for SMEs and entrepreneurs across the world. Once regarded as peripheral to the economy and public policy, the role of small firms and of entrepreneurship is now recognized as of key importance in the economic growth and development strategies of many nations.

The range of interventions and support focused on promoting SMEs and entrepreneurship is substantial and expanding, so Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development asks ‘what are some of the main policy instruments being used, and how effective are they?’ It considers policies in different countries, examines key interventions and tools used to promote entrepreneurship and SME development and concludes with contributions on how to best evaluate their effectiveness.

The contributor chapters by academics and practitioners from businesses, enterprise development agencies and governments, are empirical or evidence-based and use both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Drawing on experience from a wide range of both developed and emerging countries and economies, the contributions focus on the broad strategies that different governments and communities have adopted to foster entrepreneurship and SMEs; the policy tools and instruments that can be used to promote small business and entrepreneurship; and on the outcomes of policy instruments and the methods used to evaluate interventions. Their findings will help researchers, policy-makers, economic development officers, civil servants, elected officials, and business associations to better understand the issues in this important field.

 

Contents

List ofFigures
Regulatory Reform
Prescribed Approaches
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Small
Their Genesis Forms Intent
The Opportunities and
Some
Some Lessons from
An English Model of Small Business
Challenges Distinctions
Government Policy to Support Franchisees
The Case of Enterprise
19Challenging Default Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses Simon Bridge and Ken ONeill
Index

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About the author (2012)

Professor Robert Blackburn is Director of the Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University, UK. Robert has a wealth of experience researching entrepreneurship and SMEs including projects for the UK Treasury, the European Union, OECD and Barclays and HSBC banks. He is editor in chief of the International Small Business Journal and has published five books.
Dr Michael Schaper is an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. He is a deputy chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and was previously Small Business Commissioner for the Australian Capital Territory. Dr Schaper has been President of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand, and a director of the International Council for Small Business.

Hon Mark Prisk MP, Senator the Hon. Nick Sherry, Robert A. Blackburn, Michael T. Schaper, Ross Brown, Colin Mason, Tanya Jurado, Claire MasseyHugo D. Kantis, Juan S. Federico, Norin Arshed, Sara Carter, Jonathan G. Lashley, Viet Le, Charles Harvie, Lei Ye, David Tweed,Paul Toulson, Rita Klapper, Mahamadou Biga-Diambeidou, Arto Henrikki Lahti, Phillip Kemp, Paull Weber, Ken Phillips, Tui McKeown, Richard Blundel, Adrian Monaghan, Christine Thomas, Robert J. Bennett, Andrew Maville, Fergus Lyon, Leandro Sepulveda, Jenny Buchan, Paul Cowie, Ron Botham, Simon Bridge, Ken O’Neill, Kim Houghton, Thomas Fell.

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