Public policy to promote entrepreneurship: a call to arms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 35-51

  Acs, Zoltan ^a,b   Åstebro, Thomas ^c   Audretsch, David ^d   Robinson, David T ^e  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c HEC PARIS   (France)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Public policy; Social welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959371954     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9712-2     Document Type: Article

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