Entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness: The role and progression of policy

By Robert Huggins, Nick Williams. 2011

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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The Relational Organization of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2017, background): “Policies represent laws and directives that create publicly funded support programs designed to encourage entrepreneurship through tax benefits, investment of public funds, or reductions in bureaucratic regulation (Huggins and Williams, 2011; Mason and Brown, 2013).”
The impact of government financial support on the performance of new firms: the role of competitive advantage as an intermediate outcome (2014, background): “This might be challenging, particularly as some researchers (Huggins and Williams 2011) have found that policy-makers are under pressure to measure short-term results at the expense of long-term nurturing of small businesses.”
Entrepreneurship and the determinants of firm survival within regions: human capital, growth motivation and locational conditions (2017, unknown): “As outlined above entrepreneurial activity in peripheral regions is frequently encouraged as a source of growth (Huggins and Williams 2011; Baumgartner, Pütz, and Seidl 2013; Stephens, Partridge, and Faggian 2013), but the nature of the location as well as the work force skills and motivations…”
A progress review of entrepreneurship and regional development: What are the remaining gaps? (2016, background): “Today, policies are often based on a best-practice approach replicatingwhat other regions or nations do, rather than develop their own context-specific, tailor-made programme (Huggins & Williams, 2011).”
Local Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Public–Private Collaborative Partnerships in Fostering Regional Entrepreneurship (2018, unknown): “One study found that entrepreneurship policies undertaken by the UK Labour governments between 1997 and 2010 helped improve regional competitiveness by addressing the economic and social problems constraining new business formation (Huggins & Williams, 2011).”
Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory (2015, background): “Regions, therefore, can become ‘incubators of new ideas’ and provide opportunities for entrepreneurship to take place, as well as for discovering valuable new knowledge (Glaeser 2002; Ikeda 2008; Huggins and Williams 2011).”