William J. Baumol: An entrepreneurial economist on the economics of entrepreneurship
2004 (English)In: Small Business Economics, ISSN 0921-898X, E-ISSN 1573-0913, Vol. 23, no 1, p. 1-7Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]
William J. Baumol is the 2003 winner of the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. Throughout his career Baumol has urged the profession to pay attention to the instrumental role of entrepreneurship in economic renewal and growth. At the same time he has insisted that economists continue to use their usual tool box when the purview of analysis is extended to entrepreneurship. Hence, Baumol can be characterized as a revolutionary from within. In this article we present and discuss Baumol's research contribution in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business economics, notably from a growth perspective. In addition to placing his work in these areas into the wider context of his full contribution, we emphasize Baumol's findings that growth cannot be explained by the accumulation of various factors of production per se; human creativity and productive entrepreneurship are needed to combine the inputs in profitable ways. As a result, an institutional environment that encourages productive entrepreneurship and human experimentation becomes the ultimate determinant of economic growth.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2004. Vol. 23, no 1, p. 1-7
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-41205DOI: 10.1023/B:SBEJ.0000026049.86377.dfISI: 000221121600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-9744225839OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-41205DiVA, id: diva2:443594
Note
QC 20110926
2011-09-262011-09-232022-06-24Bibliographically approved