Chapter 15: Political Perspectives: From Policy to Practice

  • Explore entrepreneurship from a political perspective, with a particular focus on public policy, economic development, and innovation.
  • Understand why governments and non-governmental organisations intervene in the entrepreneurship process, and what they seek to achieve.
  • Appreciate the wide range of strategies and techniques used to encourage and to guide enterprise in particular directions.
  • Critically evaluate the impact of enterprise policies, and consider how they might be adapted or developed in order to respond to contemporary issues.
  • Make connections between policy-making and the current state of knowledge about entrepreneurship, as reviewed in the other Part Two chapters.
  • Recognise how policies can be related to your own entrepreneurial experiences, and how they may influence your future activities.