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Download or read book Local Heroes in the Global Village written by David B. Audretsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship and growth are central concerns of policy makers around the world. Local Heroes in the Global Village introduces public policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship on a comparative, primarily German-American level. The book contributes to the debate what role public policies play in stimulating national and regional economic growth. With a better understanding of the complexity and variety of existent entrepreneurship policies in the U.S. and Germany the reader of this volume will be able to formulate best practice, hands-on strategies which aim to promote nations as well as regions in an "entrepreneurial economy".