Entrepreneurship Policy: Theory and Practice
Entrepreneurship Policy: Theory and Practice is the first book to fully analyze the construction of entrepreneurship policy, a rapidly-evolving area of policy about which little is known. From a study and assessment of the practices of governments in thir
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by Anders Lundstrom and Lois A. Stevenson
ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Kluwer Academic Publishers New York/Boston/Dordrecht/London/Moscow
About the Authors
Prof. Lois Stevenson is a former Director, Entrepreneurship Development with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and former Director, Policy and Liaison in the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Office of Industry Canada. In 2002, she served as Deputy Executive Director, Industry Canada's Innovation Secretariat, and leads the Practice of Innovation Initiative, profiling highly innovative firms and their CEOs. Prior to joining the Government of Canada in 1990, she spent ten years as a university professor teaching and researching in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business management. She has authored (or co-authored) seven books and has over 40 papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She is a Past-President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE); a member of the Entrepreneurship Of The Year Institute; a Fellow of the Price-Babson Fellows Program; a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin; and a Wilford White Fellow. Ms. Stevenson is a member of the International Reference Council of the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and during 2000-01 was a visiting researcher with the Foundation leading an international study of entrepreneurship policy. She holds three degrees from universities in Canada and the UK and lives in Ottawa, Canada. Prof. Anders Lundstrom is Founder and President of The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF), with offices in Orebro and Stockholm, Sweden and Brussels. He is responsible for the FSF research programme concerning the effects of small business and entrepreneurship policy programmes and has conducted many studies on the problems and possibilities for SMEs and related policy issues. Dr. Lundstrom was Deputy-
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Director at NUTEK, Sweden's Business Development Agency, and prior to that, the Research Director at SIND, the Swedish National Industrial Board. He founded FSF in 1994, acting as the chair of its Board of Directors until assuming the role as President in 1997. He also founded the FSF-NUTEK award, the International Award for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Research, and chairs FSF's International Reference Council. Dr. Lundstrom has written over 20 books and numerous articles in the field of small business and entrepreneurship. His current research interests are in the field of SME and entrepreneurship policy. In 2002-03, he led the research project to examine entrepreneurship policy approaches in the five Nordic countries. He is a Past President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and chaired the ICSB World Conference in Stockholm in 1996 and the 2001 International Small Business Congress (ISBC) World Conference in Stockholm. He is a Professor at the Bu
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