The Entrepreneurial Society

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Why Entrepreneurship?

   • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mark Sanders

   Pages 1-23Open Access

3. Entrepreneurship, the Rule of Law, and Protection of Property Rights

   • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mark Sanders

   Pages 25-33Open Access

4. Taxation and Entrepreneurship

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   Pages 35-51Open Access

5. Savings, Finance, and Capital for Entrepreneurial Ventures

   • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mark Sanders

   Pages 53-72Open Access

6. Labor Markets and Social Security in the Entrepreneurial Society

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   Pages 73-86Open Access

7. Contestable Markets for Entry and Exit

   • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mark Sanders

   Pages 87-102Open Access

8. Mobilizing Human Capital for Entrepreneurship

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   Pages 103-121Open Access

9. Making Entrepreneurship Policy or Entrepreneurial Policymaking

   • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mark Sanders

   Pages 123-129Open Access

10. Back Matter

    Pages 131-173

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This open access book builds on the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe can move towards more inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth through reforms that will rekindle its entrepreneurial spirit. Based on decades of research and countless discussions with stakeholders, the book also features the FIRES project’s full list of policy interventions and institutional reforms that can help policymakers make that agenda a reality.

• Institutions and entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship policy in the European Union
• SME Access to finance in the EU
• Collaborative innovation and economic policy
• Policies for entrepreneurial ecosystem
• Policy interventions for innovation in the EU
• Creating an entrepreneurial society in the EU
• Open Access

“The causal relationships behind the emergence of entrepreneurship in regions and nations are hard to identify and replicate. A reasonable entrepreneurship policy is therefore one based on economic theory and available evidence, coupled with a holistic approach that takes into account the specific situation of each region or country and which avoids one-size-fits-all recommendations. For such an entrepreneurship policy, The Entrepreneurial Society should be mandatory reading.” (Karl Wennberg, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 30, 2020)

• Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden

  Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson

• Utrecht University School of Economics (USE), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Mark Sanders

Niklas Elert is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. on the topic of Economic Dynamism – essays on firm entry and firm growth in 2014 at Örebro University, Sweden. His current research focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics. 

Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. Until 2009, he was the Jacob Wallenberg professor at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since the end of the 1990s, his primary research field has been entrepreneurship economics.


Mark Sanders is an associate professor at the Utrecht University School of Economics (The Netherlands). His teaching and research involve connecting entrepreneurship, innovation and the transition towards more sustainable economic growth. Mark is also a member of the Sustainable Finance Lab that aims to make financial markets contribute towards this transition.