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The Entrepreneurial Society

A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK

  • Provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level quantitative and qualitative data analysis to recommend entrepreneurship development policies
  • Surveys entrepreneurs and startup founders in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom
  • Develops a reform strategy for creation of successful entrepreneurial ecosystems in different institutional settings

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship (ISEN, volume 44)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Seven Steps Toward Inclusive, Innovative, and Sustainable Growth

    • Mark Sanders, Axel Marx, Mikael Stenkula
    Pages 1-6Open Access
  3. Historical Roots, Ecosystem Assessment, Firm Formation Processes and Legal Competences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Economic Impact Assessment of Entrepreneurship Policies with the GMR-Europe Model

      • Attila Varga, László Szerb, Tamás Sebestyén, Norbert Szabó
      Pages 39-70Open Access
  4. Country Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. A Reform Strategy for Italy

      • Mark Sanders, Mikael Stenkula, Luca Grilli, Andrea M. Herrmann, Gresa Latifi, Balázs Páger et al.
      Pages 127-162Open Access
    3. A Reform Strategy for Germany

      • Mark Sanders, Mikael Stenkula, Michael Fritsch, Andrea M. Herrmann, Gresa Latifi, Balázs Páger et al.
      Pages 163-202Open Access
    4. A Reform Strategy for the UK

      • Mark Sanders, Mikael Stenkula, James Dunstan, Saul Estrin, Andrea M. Herrmann, Balázs Páger et al.
      Pages 203-246Open Access
    5. What We Have Learned and How We May Proceed

      • Mark Sanders, Axel Marx, Mikael Stenkula
      Pages 247-252Open Access

About this book

This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe’s entrepreneurial ecosystems. Then experts from Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom discuss tailored strategies for introducing entrepreneurial policy reforms in their respective countries.





Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Mark Sanders

  • Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Axel Marx

  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Mikael Stenkula

About the editors

Axel Marx is deputy director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on global governance, sustainability standards, non-state market regulation, human rights, trade governance, research methodology, comparative case methods and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). 


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.



Mikael Stenkula is an associate professor at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. His research focus is on entrepreneurship, business structures and taxation.

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