Economic Development Through Entrepreneurship: Government, University and Business Linkages

Despite a wealth of efforts that examine separately the role entrepreneurs and universities play in economic development, no systematic effort has been made to examine the role universities play in promoting economic development through entrepreneurship. This book fills that gap, focusing on policy aspects of government-university partnerships with a discussion both of best practices and problematic strategies.

The book begins by tracing the history of American government-university-industr...