The Entrepreneurial Society

"The causal relationships behind the emergence of entrepreneurship in regions and nations are hard to identify and replicate. A reasonable entrepreneurship policy is therefore one based on economic theory and available evidence, coupled with a holistic approach that takes into account the specific situation of each region or country and which avoids one-size-fits-all recommendations. For such an entrepreneurship policy, The Entrepreneurial Society should be mandatory reading." (Karl Wennberg, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 30, 2020)

Niklas Elert is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. on the topic of Economic Dynamism - essays on firm entry and firm growth in 2014 at OErebro University, Sweden. His current research focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics. Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. Until 2009, he was the Jacob Wallenberg professor at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since the end of the 1990s, his primary research field has been entrepreneurship economics. Mark Sanders is an associate professor at the Utrecht University School of Economics (The Netherlands). His teaching and research involve connecting entrepreneurship, innovation and the transition towards more sustainable economic growth. Mark is also a member of the Sustainable Finance Lab that aims to make financial markets contribute towards this transition.

Introduction: Why Entrepreneurship?.- Entrepreneurship, the Rule of Law, and Protection of Property Rights.- Taxation and Entrepreneurship.- Savings, Finance, and Capital for Entrepreneurial Ventures.- Labor Markets and Social Security in the Entrepreneurial Society.- Contestable Markets for Entry and Exit.- Mobilizing Human Capital for Entrepreneurship.- Making Entrepreneurship Policy or Entrepreneurial Policymaking