Oliver Mallett in an Associate Professor in Work and Employment at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Oliver's research interests relate to employment relationships in small businesses and to government and private sector support for small businesses. Robert Wapshott is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he is a member of the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development. Robert's research studies small businesses and entrepreneurship with a particular focus on small business management and on regulation.
Acknowledgements
1. What is enterprise policy and why is it important?
2. Government, Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
3. Filling the finance gap
4. Regional enterprise policy
5. Early lobbying and debating the role of government
6. Taxation, lobbying and a voice for small business
7. The Europeanisation of enterprise policy
8. Neoliberalism and enterprise culture
9. Market liberalisation and deregulation
10. Tackling deadweight and displacement through consultancy
11. Enterprise policy as an answer to deprivation and exclusion
12. Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Index
