Synopses & Reviews
Explains how economic growth spread through entrepreneurship in the United States in the 1990s.
About the Author
Zoltan J. Acs is the Doris and Robert McCurdy Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Robert G. Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, and a Research Scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Economics. Previously he was a Research Fellow at the U.S. Bureau of the Census and Chief Economist at the U.S. Small Business Administration. Professor Acs has published over 75 scholarly articles in leading academic journals and twenty books. His most recent publication is Innovation and the Growth of Cities (2002). He is the founder and editor of Small Business Economics, the leading international journal in entrepreneurship and the recipient of the 2001 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Research Award given by the Swedish Foundation for Small Business. Professor Acs's primary research interests are entrepreneurship, technological change and economic development.Catherine Armington is a Research Fellow in the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Entrepreneurship and economic growth; 3. Regional variation in entrepreneurial activity; 4. Human capital and entrepreneurship; 5. Entrepreneurship and employment growth; 6. Summary and conclusions; 7. A formulation of entrepreneurship policy.