Imperial College London
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Professor Erkko Autio FBA

Business School

Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1991erkko.autio CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Rachel Jury +44 (0)20 7594 5926

 
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Location

 

388Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Acs:2014:10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016,
author = {Acs, ZJ and Autio, E and Szerb, L},
doi = {10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016},
journal = {Research Policy},
pages = {476--494},
title = {National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy implications},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016},
volume = {43},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We introduce a novel concept of National Systems of Entrepreneurship and provide an approach to characterizing them. National Systems of Entrepreneurship are fundamentally resource allocation systems that are driven by individual-level opportunity pursuit, through the creation of new ventures, with this activity and its outcomes regulated by country-specific institutional characteristics. In contrast with the institutional emphasis of the National Systems of Innovation frameworks, where institutions engender and regulate action, National Systems of Entrepreneurship are driven by individuals, with institutions regulating who acts and the outcomes of individual action. Building on these principles, we also introduce a novel index methodology to characterize National Systems of Entrepreneurship. The distinctive features of the methodology are: (1) systemic approach, which allows interactions between components of National Systems of Entrepreneurship; (2) the Penalty for Bottleneck feature, which identifies bottleneck factors that hold back system performance; (3) contextualization, which recognizes that national entrepreneurship processes are always embedded in a given country's institutional framework.
AU  - Acs,ZJ
AU  - Autio,E
AU  - Szerb,L
DO  - 10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016
EP  - 494
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 0048-7333
SP  - 476
TI  - National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy implications
T2  - Research Policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733313001613
VL  - 43
ER  -
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