Program on Research in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy (PREPP)
Links to Additional Resources
It is widely perceived that entrepreneurs have a
central role in market economies. However, economic research and public
policy is largely conducted using a tripartite division of the economy
(households, firms, government) without any special recognition of (or role
for) entrepreneurs. Moreover, most public programs are executed to react to
issues or to provide specific services or goods, not to create environments
within which entrepreneurship can flourish.
The objective of this research program is to study the economics of
entrepreneurship with an eye to guiding government policy that affects
entrepreneurial decisions. Research areas include: (1) Effects
of
productivity growth, economic growth, income distribution and mobility on
entrepreneurship, and on the geography of entrepreneurship. (2) The role of
taxes, regulations, and other policies on the employment, compensation,
investment, finance, entry, and exit decisions of entrepreneurs and small
businesses. (3) Entrepreneurial incentives and performance in the government
and in the non-profit sector. (4) Related topics of interest also include:
the social context of entrepreneurship and; the effects of estate tax and
small business; taxation on entrepreneurship; old-age entrepreneurship;
intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial values; role of family
businesses; and entrepreneurship in the “new” economy.
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The Geography of Female Entrepreneurship, Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange (PIs), Kauffman Foundation.
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Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship. Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Harvey Rosen (editors), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (January), 2004.
Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration. In addition to what its name suggests, the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) compiles statistical data and conducts and supports research on the role of small business and entrepreneurship in the American economy.
