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Public policy interventions aimed at encouraging, supporting and
developing small businesses are an important factor in
understanding entrepreneurship and small business management. This
textbook is the first to provide teachers and students with a
resource that gives an overview of how institutional and policy
structures interact with small firm start-ups, continuation and
succession/failures. Beginning with a brief introduction to policy
processes, the book also covers the scope for different
intervention at different scales: macroeconomic (international,
national) and regional/local. The author then applies four lenses
to provide different contexts to understand the theory and practice
of public policy for small business management: The UK is used to
cover long-term historical evolution of small businesses and how
this has stimulated different policy approaches. The USA provides
greater emphasis on varied approaches within a federal system and
the specifics of the SBA. The EU is used as a case to engage with
international and varied policy approaches.Emerging economies are
used to provide insights into radically different ways of combining
understanding of small firm start-ups, continuation and
succession/failures with policy approaches within the context of
globalization. Written by a pre-eminent scholar of public policy
and entrepreneurship, this textbook provides a concise but thorough
introduction to the subject for Master's students internationally.
Public policy interventions aimed at encouraging, supporting and
developing small businesses are an important factor in
understanding entrepreneurship and small business management. This
textbook is the first to provide teachers and students with a
resource that gives an overview of how institutional and policy
structures interact with small firm start-ups, continuation and
succession/failures. Beginning with a brief introduction to policy
processes, the book also covers the scope for different
intervention at different scales: macroeconomic (international,
national) and regional/local. The author then applies four lenses
to provide different contexts to understand the theory and practice
of public policy for small business management: The UK is used to
cover long-term historical evolution of small businesses and how
this has stimulated different policy approaches. The USA provides
greater emphasis on varied approaches within a federal system and
the specifics of the SBA. The EU is used as a case to engage with
international and varied policy approaches.Emerging economies are
used to provide insights into radically different ways of combining
understanding of small firm start-ups, continuation and
succession/failures with policy approaches within the context of
globalization. Written by a pre-eminent scholar of public policy
and entrepreneurship, this textbook provides a concise but thorough
introduction to the subject for Master's students internationally.
This title was first published in 2000. Since New Labour were
elected in 1997, there have been substantial changes made to local
and regional economic development policy in the UK. This volume
offers an up-to-date overview, setting the new policies within a
wider historic context and suggesting future developments. It
examines four of these new policies in depth - Regional Development
Agencies, New Deal local partnerships, Local Learning and Skills
Councils, and the Small Business Service and Business link. In
doing so, it offers a critical appraisal of how effective these
changes have been in tackling issues such as developing human
resources, skills and opportunities, developing land infrastructure
and sites, capital formation and development, encouraging
innovation, entrepreneurship and technological change and enhancing
a supportive institutional context.
Academic publisher, Pion, has an outstanding reputation for
publishing high quality journals in the fields of geography,
physics and experimental psychology. The four geographical journals
in the Pion stable - the Environment and Planning series - are
committed to publishing innovative, interdisciplinary quality
papers which tackle a range of important questions. This
collection, edited by a stellar editorial team under the leadership
of Stuart Elden and published by SAGE, draws from all four journals
to showcase the best of the best on offer in urban and regional
research. Volume One: Cities and Regions provides a selection of
papers from the original journal in the series, focused on the
opportunities and challenges associated with urban and regional
transformations around the world. The wide-ranging remit of the
journal allows readers to draw on sources from many disciplines -
geography, sociology, economics, environmental science, political
science, planning, and regional studies. Volume Two: Planning and
Design brings together seminal articles that promote research
relating to spatial problems and plans concerning the built
environment and the spatial structure of cities and regions. It
brings an avowedly interdisciplinary approach to urban design,
planning, modeling, simulation, GIS and spatial analysis, focusing
on new scientific and computational approaches. Volume Three:
Government and Policy presents the path-breaking papers that have
been at the forefront of research on government, governance, and
innovations in public policy. The journal encourages international
perspectives and dialogue as illustrated by the varied selection in
this volume. Volume Four: Society and Space brings together papers
from the pre-eminent journal for interdisciplinary debates around
society and space involving, among others, philosophers,
sociologists, anthropologists, historians and political scientists.
It includes articles that exemplify the discussion of the mutually
constitutive relation between the social and the spatial. Volume
Five: Foundations, edited by the whole team, rounds off the
collection with a selection of articles that eloquently demonstrate
the theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant focus of
this remarkable family of journals.
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