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The Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness

David B. Audretsch , Albert N. Link , Mary Lindenstein Walshok

The local levels of economies have felt the impact of technological change and globalization. These forces have triggered the need to understand the dynamic mechanisms that enable locales to respond to such changes. For example, the downsizing of traditional employers...

Public Sector Entrepreneurship

Dennis Patrick Leyden , Albert N. Link

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and...

Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise

David B. Audretsch , Albert N. Link

Public Goods, Public Gains

Albert N. Link , John T. Scott

In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits of publicly financed research and development (R&D). The authors argue that economic theory should be the guiding...

Government as Entrepreneur

Albert N. Link , Jamie R. Link

Government acts as entrepreneur when its involvement in market activities is both innovative and characterized by entrepreneurial risk. Thinking of government as entrepreneur is a unique lens through which the authors of this book examine a specific subset of U.S....