Dennis Leyden is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Current research focuses on public and private sector entrepreneurship and on the role of universities in furthering such. Past research includes work on public education funding equity and accountability. His books include Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding (Springer 2005) and Government's Role in Innovation (Kluwer 1992).Albert N. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Professor Link's research focuses on entrepreneurship, technology and innovation policy, the economics of R&D, and policy/program evaluation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Transfer. Among his more than 40 books, some of the more recent ones are: Handbook for University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press, in production), Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Public Goods, Public Gains (Oxford University Press, 2011). His other research consists of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

There is little doubt that the public sector has been the Achilles heel of the American economy. With this thoughtful and insightful new book, Leyden and Link pioneer a thoughtful approach and propose a bold new vision and blueprint for a fundamental rethinking of the role and approach of the public sector. Just as entrepreneurship has revolutionized what drives the economy in the private sector, Leyden and Link pave the way for the forgotten man in economic growth and development-an entrepreneurial public sector.

• Chapter 1: Introduction ; Part I: Defining Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 3: Toward a Theory of Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 4: Setting the Stage ; Part II: Policy Examples of Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 5: The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 ; Chapter 6: The Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980 ; Chapter 7: The R&E Tax Credit of 1981 ; Chapter 8: The Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 ; Chapter 9: The National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 ; Chapter 10: The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 ; Part III: The Public Sector Entrepreneurship Perspective ; Chapter 11: Past is Prologue ; Chapter 12: Concluding Observations

Dennis Leyden is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Current research focuses on public and private sector entrepreneurship and on the role of universities in furthering such. Past research includes work on public education funding equity and accountability. His books include Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding (Springer 2005) and Government's Role in Innovation (Kluwer 1992).Albert N. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Professor Link's research focuses on entrepreneurship, technology and innovation policy, the economics of R&D, and policy/program evaluation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Transfer. Among his more than 40 books, some of the more recent ones are: Handbook for University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press, in production), Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Public Goods, Public Gains (Oxford University Press, 2011). His other research consists of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

There is little doubt that the public sector has been the Achilles heel of the American economy. With this thoughtful and insightful new book, Leyden and Link pioneer a thoughtful approach and propose a bold new vision and blueprint for a fundamental rethinking of the role and approach of the public sector. Just as entrepreneurship has revolutionized what drives the economy in the private sector, Leyden and Link pave the way for the forgotten man in economic growth and development-an entrepreneurial public sector.

• Chapter 1: Introduction ; Part I: Defining Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 3: Toward a Theory of Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 4: Setting the Stage ; Part II: Policy Examples of Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 5: The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 ; Chapter 6: The Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980 ; Chapter 7: The R&E Tax Credit of 1981 ; Chapter 8: The Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 ; Chapter 9: The National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 ; Chapter 10: The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 ; Part III: The Public Sector Entrepreneurship Perspective ; Chapter 11: Past is Prologue ; Chapter 12: Concluding Observations

Dennis Leyden is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Current research focuses on public and private sector entrepreneurship and on the role of universities in furthering such. Past research includes work on public education funding equity and accountability. His books include Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding (Springer 2005) and Government's Role in Innovation (Kluwer 1992).Albert N. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Professor Link's research focuses on entrepreneurship, technology and innovation policy, the economics of R&D, and policy/program evaluation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Transfer. Among his more than 40 books, some of the more recent ones are: Handbook for University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press, in production), Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Public Goods, Public Gains (Oxford University Press, 2011). His other research consists of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

There is little doubt that the public sector has been the Achilles heel of the American economy. With this thoughtful and insightful new book, Leyden and Link pioneer a thoughtful approach and propose a bold new vision and blueprint for a fundamental rethinking of the role and approach of the public sector. Just as entrepreneurship has revolutionized what drives the economy in the private sector, Leyden and Link pave the way for the forgotten man in economic growth and development-an entrepreneurial public sector.

• Chapter 1: Introduction ; Part I: Defining Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 3: Toward a Theory of Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 4: Setting the Stage ; Part II: Policy Examples of Public Sector Entrepreneurship ; Chapter 5: The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 ; Chapter 6: The Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980 ; Chapter 7: The R&E Tax Credit of 1981 ; Chapter 8: The Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 ; Chapter 9: The National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 ; Chapter 10: The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 ; Part III: The Public Sector Entrepreneurship Perspective ; Chapter 11: Past is Prologue ; Chapter 12: Concluding Observations