Entrepreneurship policy: issues and challenges. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smallbone, David
• Is Part Of: Small enterprise research. Volume 23:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 201
• Page End: 218
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: entrepreneurship policy -- small business -- evidence-based policy -- public procurement -- policy process -- policy-makers; Small business -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Small business -- Management -- Periodicals; Small business -- Management; Pacific Area; Periodicals; 658.02209905
• DOI: 10.1080/13215906.2016.1270227
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1321-5906

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article explores some current issues concerning entrepreneurship policy. It begins by examining the case for and against entrepreneurship policy followed by an analysis of the following issues: (1) the importance of context, which refers to the circumstances in which the policy was introduced and possibly maintained or modified; (2) the need for both researchers and practitioners to pay more explicit attention to the policy process which includes policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; (3) the call for evidence-based policy in which it is suggested that what constitutes evidence is not always agreed between researchers, practitioners and policy-makers; (4) the need for a strengthened commitment to policy evaluation and (5) public procurement as an under-utilized type of policy intervention, yet one which is potentially very powerful.