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Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems

In: Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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  • Helen Lawton Smith

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The regional innovation systems (RIS) approach tends to be short in the coverage of the importance of agency in the dynamics of economic change. This chapter addresses this by putting the entrepreneur as the driving force of regional innovation systems. This is consistent with work by Feldman and Francis (2006) who identified the entrepreneur as a regional agent of change. The chapter focuses on a number of areas where theoretical, empirical and policy-based issues are currently under-developed in relation to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship policy. Three major themes are explored. The first is the agency of both entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship policies in institutional change and the development of RIS. The second is the rationale for entrepreneurship policies in an RIS. The third relates to what entrepreneurship policies look like in RIS and how they might be evaluated as contributing towards an RIS.

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  • Helen Lawton Smith, 2021. "Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems," Chapters, in: Iréne Bernhard & Urban GrÃ¥sjö & Charlie Karlsson (ed.), Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship, chapter 4, pages 63-79, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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