Public Sector Entrepreneurship: U.S. Technology and Innovation Policy
Dennis Patrick Leyden and Albert N. Link
Abstract
Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity by transforming a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of uncertainty. This book traces the historical development of the concepts of private and public sector entrepreneurship and their connection to the separate notions of risk and uncertainty. Based on a formal conceptualization of these concepts, the book illustrates public sector entrepreneurship in practice using exam ... More
Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity by transforming a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of uncertainty. This book traces the historical development of the concepts of private and public sector entrepreneurship and their connection to the separate notions of risk and uncertainty. Based on a formal conceptualization of these concepts, the book illustrates public sector entrepreneurship in practice using examples from US technology and innovation policy. Technology policy—policy to enhance the application of new knowledge, learned through science, to some known problem—and innovation policy—policy to enhance the commercialization of a technology—are quintessential examples of the public sector recognizing and exploiting opportunities to bring about change and efficiency. Using this concept of public sector entrepreneurship as the lens to view the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, the Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980, the R&E Tax Credit of 1981, the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984, and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 affords us the ability to find elements of commonality among these polices and to discuss their impact on the US economy from the perspective of entrepreneurial action.
Keywords:
entrepreneurship,
innovation policy,
risk,
technology policy,
uncertainty
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199313853 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199313853.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dennis Patrick Leyden, author
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Albert N. Link, author
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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