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Entrepreneurship in Comparative Economics Perspective

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From a comparative economics perspective, entrepreneurship is a property of both individuals and, also, countries and their innovation systems. Based on this, the chapter explores the issue of entrepreneurial propensities of different types of capitalist economies. We discuss three analytical approaches which are relevant for exploring the relationship between Varieties of Capitalism and entrepreneurship. We than develop a conceptual approach to explore institutional varieties of capitalism from an entrepreneurial perspective. Our framework builds on the idea of ‘institutional varieties of entrepreneurial opportunities’ (EO) and its three components of technology, market and organizational regime. The key idea is that each opportunity component of entrepreneurial regime (ER) can be generated in different institutional constellations.

Keywords

  • Varieties of capitalism
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial opportunities
  • Institutions
  • Comparative economics

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Notes

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    https://www.gemconsortium.org/

  2. 2.

    https://thegedi.org/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-index

  3. 3.

    Dilli et al.’s (2018) varieties of entrepreneurial capitalism are liberal market economies (Ireland, the UK, the USA ), co-ordinated market economies (Continental and Northern European economies), mixed market economies (including France, Italy, Portugal and Spain), and the emerging market economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The variety of entrepreneurship most conducive to Schumpeterian forms of entrepreneurship is the Anglo-Saxon or liberal market economies with deregulated financial and labour markets, rapid investments and disinvestments and limited protection of dependent employment.

  4. 4.

    The reader should note that Dilli et al. (2018) try to link VoC and entrepreneurship empirically, but leaving both notions conceptually intact. Of course, this approach is legitimate, but it ignores the epistemological and theoretical differences between two approaches, including differences in policy implications.

  5. 5.

    A reader should not that conceptually and methodologically we consider the GEM/GEDI approach as very similar although they partly differ in the choice of indicators and construction of composite index.

  6. 6.

    Our systemic view is not entirely structuralist. EO are generated by the structure of activities, but entrepreneurs also can change institutions What emerges as a systemic property is the outcome of interactions between agency (entrepreneurs) and structure (technologies and embedded institutions). So, institutional shaping may be conducted by the entrepreneurs themselves. However, here, we are less interested in who is conducting institutional change and more interested in the outcomes or social shaping of different components of the entrepreneurship regime For research on the drivers/agents of institutional change towards entrepreneurship see Henrekson and Tino (2011).

  7. 7.

    As Shane and Nicolau (2018) show, since the late 1990s there has been move away from traditional venture capital activity towards angel funding, business accelerators, micro venture capital funds and online equity crowdfunding platforms. Unfortunately, we do not have large scale international comparative data on these funding sources for EO.

  8. 8.

    The reader might be tempted to refer to systems of entrepreneurship. However, we consider this a dubious notion since innovation systems, by definition, are entrepreneurial.

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Radosevic, S., Yoruk, E. (2021). Entrepreneurship in Comparative Economics Perspective. In: Douarin, E., Havrylyshyn, O. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50888-3_32

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