Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy: Volume 4 Issue 3

Policy process lessons from the Orphan Drug Act: applications for health policy advocates

Barbara Andraka-Christou

The Orphan Drug Act has provided the pharmaceutical industry with incentives to research and develop drugs for orphan diseases: rare diseases with little profit potential. It is…

Political entrepreneurship: Jefferson, Bayard, and the election of 1800

Noel Campbell, Marcus Witcher

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that an implication of Holcombe’s (2002) model is a “revolution trap.” This paper extends Holcombe’s model adding Klein’s concept of…

Entrepreneurship, corruption, and the size of US underground economies

Travis Wiseman

Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether formal…

National culture, institutions and economic growth: The way of influence on productivity of entrepreneurship

Nataliia Ostapenko

The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential pathway of influence of formal and informal institutions and economic development on the business productive behaviour at the…

The role of economic policy uncertainty in the US entrepreneurship-unemployment nexus

James E Payne

– The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on the entrepreneurship-unemployment nexus to include the role of economic policy uncertainty in the causal dynamics.

Government roles in venture capital development: a review of current literature

Lisa Jane Callagher, Peter Smith, Saskia Ruscoe

Interest in venture capital markets continues to be of relevance to politicians and policy makers, recognizing the importance of government participation in venture capital market…

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

Christopher Yencha

Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change

Christopher Shultz