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Brian D. Higginbotham, Assessing the state of entrepreneurship and innovation research, Science and Public Policy, Volume 43, Issue 6, December 2016, Pages 877–879, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scw024
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The Concise Guide to Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation addresses a gap in the academic market. The new Concise Guides series, of which this is the first, is situated between the Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions and more traditional academic handbooks. The Concise Guide is edited by Dr. David B. Audretsch, a prolific and highly respected entrepreneurship scholar; Dr. Albert N. Link, who has written extensively about entrepreneurship and science and technology policy; and Dr. Christopher S. Hayter, a former policy practitioner who recently joined the faculty at the Arizona State University School of Public Affairs. The contributors are mostly drawn from economics departments and schools of management but represent a range of disciplines within these areas.
The present volume totals just 262 pages yet contains 46 chapters. Several recent handbooks on entrepreneurship are twice as long but contain roughly half as many chapters. The chapters range in length from two to 12 pages, including the bibliography, giving an average length of only six pages. The book therefore offers an interesting trade-off between breadth and depth. The short length is also a challenge for the contributors who have been tasked with presenting complex information in concise and tightly worded essays without reducing clarity. The question is whether the effort will appeal to scholars trying to understand the ‘theoretical jungle’ of entrepreneurship and innovation research (p. 76).