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This book takes a close look at the contribution of small firms to the U.S. economy and at the contrasts between traditional development policies and those often recommended to help the small enterprise. The book offers systematic guidelines that will assist economic developers, policy makers, and private citizens in their efforts to promote entrepreneurship and assure sound economic development at local and state levels. Recent Publications on Governmental Problems

The widespread interest in entrepreneurship as a means of creating jobs and raising incomes has resulted in a growing demand for an economic and political environment that will nurture small business ventures. Accordingly, the promotion of entrepreneurship has taken its place alongside industrial recruitment as a component of economic developement policy. In this study, Benjamin Mokry considers whether it makes sense to devise such policies without first exploring more thoroughly the dynamics of entrepreneurship and the possible impact of government initiatives. In a careful analysis based on in-depth research on state and local development policies, he points up existing information gaps and suggests a realistic framework for approaching policy design in this area.

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• Introduction
• Small Businesses and Smokestacks: Opportunities and Challenges for Development Policy
• The Business Startup: Issues in Designing Local Stimulus Policies
• Promoting Entrepreneurship Locally: There Is a Will But Is There a Way?
• Measuring the Effects of Policy on Small Business Startups
• Development Policy in Four New York State Counties
• The Performance of Entrepreneurial Promotion Policies
• Reconsidering Entrepreneurial Promotion
• Appendixes: Note on the Quasi-Experimental Research Design
• Development Organizations in Study Sites
• Questionnaire Used in the Study
• Cluster Map of Baseline Counties
• Industries Used in the Study
• References
• Index

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After an extensive review of the research and literature on small business programs, Mokry undertakes an original analysis of four New York counties and the success of their efforts to increase entrepreneurship and small-business start-ups. The author also attempts to compare their results with baselines of numerous other counties also classified as distressed or growing. Mokry concludes that the entrepreneur and small business are essential to economic development but that the "entrepreneurial model" is difficult for government to establish. Despite his negative findings of different programs, the author encourages further efforts and analysis to create effective development policies. He stresses the importance of the environment, local initiatives, adequate resources, and total government activism for aiding the entrepreneur and small business. Graphs, tables, and research instruments are included. Readers interested in this topic may also benefit from consulting The Environment for Entrepreneurship, ed. by Calvin A. Kent (CH, Sep '84). Useful for planners (like Mokry), advanced students, and others interested in government programs for small business. -A. E. Pierce, Lafayette College

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BENJAMIN W. MOKRY is Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Mississippi Home Corporation.