Small Enterprise Development: Policy and Practice in Action

Small Enterprise Development bridges the gap between research and public policy in the fast changing field of small business development. The thirteen chapters have been written by some of the UK′s leading and emerging small business researchers. They present findings from current and on-going research studies in a number of current areas of small business development. They identify the application of their findings for policymakers, who are involved in both the design and delivery of small business policy at national and local levels.

′This book is well balanced and easy to understand. The reader has a sense of what the book is trying to achieve, and the collection of papers make for a stimulating discussion of current thinking and research on the small firm sector. It is a book to be recommended′ - Regional Studies