Module 1.1: ‘Market failures’ as a rationale for entrepreneurship policy

  • Parker, S.C. 2009. Principles of entrepreneurship policy. In Parker S.C. The Economics of Entrepreneurship. Cambridge University Press, chapter 15. 
  • Peneder, M. 2008. The problem of private under-investment in innovation: A policy mind map. Technovation, 28(8), 518-530.

Module 1.2: Facilitating the transition from quantity toward quality of entrepreneurship

  • Baumol, W.J. 1990. Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive. Journal of Political Economy, 98(5), 893-921.
  • Shane, S. 2009. Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy. Small Business Economics, 33(2), 141-149. 

Module 1.3: Promoting high-tech and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship

  • Grilli, L. 2014. High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Europe: A Heuristic Firm Growth Model and Three “(Un-)easy Pieces” for Policy-Making. Industry and Innovation, 21(4), 267-284. 

Module 1.4: Promoting social entrepreneurship and social innovation

  • Colombo, M.G., Grilli, L., Piscitello, L., Rossi-Lamastra, C. 2011. Introduction. In: Science and Innovation Policy for New Knowledge Economy, Editors: Colombo M.G., Grilli L., Piscitello L., Rossi-Lamastra C. Edward Elgar Publishing: