Title: Entrepreneurship policy development: New Zealand in comparison

Authors: Howard H. Frederick

Addresses: School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Unitec New Zealand/Te Wananga o Wairaki, Private Bag 92025, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract: This paper first examines the impact of entrepreneurship research on policy development in 20 countries of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project. Curiously, despite its entrepreneurial endowments, the impact on New Zealand falls behind other countries. For a deeper insight, the paper then compares entrepreneurship and innovation policies in New Zealand and Sinaloa, Mexico. New Zealand has a robust innovation policy yet places little emphasis on the needs of actual individual entrepreneurs and their decision to choose self-employment. In Sinaloa, the emphasis is on creating more and better entrepreneurs, but there is no innovation policy. Both sides have something to learn from the other.

Keywords: New Zealand; entrepreneurship policy; Mexico; innovation policy; entrepreneurs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2004.005661

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2004 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.294 - 312

Published online: 10 Nov 2004 *

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