Symposium: Entrepreneurship in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
Symposium Editors:
David B. Audretsch Indiana University https://spea.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/audretsch-david.html
Donald S. Siegel Arizona State University (as of 7/1/17) http://www.albany.edu/business/Donald_Siegel.php
Siri Terjesen American University Norwegian School of Economics, Norway http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/terjesen.cfm
Entrepreneurship is a topic of growing interest to academics and policymakers. Scholars in the field of public administration have been slower than academics in other fields (e.g., business administration and economics) to embrace the study of entrepreneurship. That is not surprising since entrepreneurial activity has traditionally focused on the private sector and the pursuit of profit. However, in recent years, we have witnessed a substantial rise in entrepreneurial initiatives in the public and non-profit sectors. These initiatives involve numerous government and non-profit entities, including federal agencies, universities, foundations, and state and local governments.
Entrepreneurship in the public and non-profit sectors has broader social goals than conventional forms of entrepreneurship, such as the more rapid commercialization and use of inventions and new technologies arising from federally-funded research, enhancement of regional economic development, sustainability and other environmental objectives, and remedying other market failures with innovative solutions. These new initiatives also have important implications for the “entrepreneurial” behavior of public sector managers (e.g., Lewis, 1980; Schneider and Teske, 1992) and thus, the vast literature in public administration and political science on public entrepreneurship (e.g., Ostrom 1964, 2005; Wagner, 1966; Osborne and Gaebler, 1993; McGinnis and Ostrom, 2012).
The proposed symposium seeks to bring together papers that address these issues. Another key goal of the symposium is to foster stronger links among entrepreneurship researchers in a variety of social science disciplines (including the field of management) and public administration scholars. Some themes that papers in the proposed symposium might address are: Public entrepreneurship and public sector entrepreneurship (Bellone and Goerl, 1992; Moon, 1999; Bernier and Hafsi, 2007; Leyden and Link, 2015) Public policies and programs to promote entrepreneurship, e.g., the Bayh-Dole Act (Aldridge and Audretsch, 2011; Berman, 2012), the Small Business Innovation Research Program (Audretsch, Link, and Scott, 2002), and the NSF I-Corps Program (Pellicane and Blaho, 2015) Social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector (Frumkin and Kim, 2001; Korosec and Berman, 2006; Waddock and Post, 1991; Terjesen, Bosma, and Stam, 2015; Schneider, 2017; Terjesen, 2017) Academic/university entrepreneurship, including technology transfer offices and property-based institutions, such as incubators/accelerators and science/technology parks (Link, Siegel, and Wright, 2015; Siegel, Waldman, and Link, 2003; Yu, Stough, and Nijkamp, 2009) The contribution of entrepreneurship to regional economic development (e.g., Decker, Haltiwanger, Jarmin, and Miranda, 2014)
The Review Process and Tentative Timetable The following is a tentative schedule for the proposed symposium: Submission of papers: May 2018 First Round Completed Reviews of submitted papers: August 2018 Developmental workshop at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. September 2018 Submission of final papers: January-March 2019 Note that there will be a special developmental workshop for highly promising papers under review, which will be held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.