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The book explores the myths and realities of entrepreneurship, emphasizing evidence-based insights into how businesses start, grow, and succeed. Drawing from the author's experience as a venture investor, economist, and leader at the Kauffman Foundation, the book aims to dispel popular misconceptions about entrepreneurship. It highlights that most successful entrepreneurs are not young tech prodigies but older individuals with significant work experience. The book provides practical guidance for aspiring entrepreneurs, focusing on data-driven strategies rather than anecdotal success stories. It underscores the importance of experience gained in large companies as a foundation for successful startups.

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In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerged. This welcome book cuts through the chatter and offers a detailed, nonideological, and practical blueprint to restore the vigor of the American economy. Better Capitalism extends and significantly expands on the insights of the authors' widely praised previous book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, co-written with William Baumol. In Better Capitalism, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm focus on the huge-but often unrecognized-importance of entrepreneurship to overall economic growth. They explain how changes in seemingly unrelated policy arenas-immigration, education, finance, and federal support of university research-can accelerate America's recovery from recession and spur the nation's rate of growth in output while raising living standards. The authors also outline an innovative energy strategy and discuss the potential benefits of government belt-tightening steps. Sounding an optimistic note when gloomy predictions are the norm, Litan and Schramm show that, with wise and informed policymaking, the American entrepreneurial engine can rally and the true potential of the U.S. economy can be unlocked.

Entrepreneurship --- Capitalism --- United States --- Economic policy.

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Traditional service sectors encompass a wide variety of industries ranging from transportation, retail and healthcare to entertainment, banking, and insurance. As the service sector expands into the global economy, a new science of service is emerging, one that is dedicated to encouraging service innovation by applying scientific understanding, engineering discipline, and management practice to designing, improving, and scaling service systems. This seminal reference considers Service Science to be the study of value co-creation, and finds abundant common elements and themes, common concerns and approaches that converge on this central, real-world phenomena. Handbook of Service Science takes the first major steps to clarifying the definition, role, and future of this nascent field. Incorporating work by scholars from across the spectrum of service research, the volume presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the nature and theory of service, on current research and practice in design, operations, delivery, and innovation of service, and on future opportunities and potential of service research. Handbook of Service Science provides a comprehensive reference suitable for a wide-reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to learn about or to create a deeper scientific foundation for service design and engineering, service experience and marketing, and service management and innovation. List of contributors includes: Melissa A. Akaka.- John Bailey.- Guruduth Banavar.- Rahul C. Basole.- William J. Baumol.- Gaurav Bhalla.- Mary Jo Bitner.- Jeannette Blomberg.- David E. Bowen.- John R. Bryson.- Richard B. Chase.- Henry Chesbrough.- Eng K. Chew.- Daniel Connors.- Peter W. Daniel.- Andrew Davies.- Faridah Djellal.- Bo Edvardsson.- Shelley Evenson.- Ray P. Fisk.- Faïz Gallouj.- Susanne Glissmann.- Robert J. Glushko.- Michael Gorma.- Michael Gregory.- Dwayne D. Gremler.- Steve J. Grove.- Gerhard, Gudergan.- Evert Gummesson.- Anders Gustafsson.- Alan Hartman.- James L. Heskett.- Kazuyoshi Hidaka.- Barbara Jones.- Uday S. Karmarkar.- Per Kristensson.- Robert F. Lusch.- Linda Macaulay.- Richard Metters.- Ian Miles.- Aleksandra Mojsilovic.- Claire Moxham.- Rogelio Oliva.- Lakshmish Ramaswamy.- Guangjie Ren.- William B. Rouse.- Roland T. Rust.- Scott E. Sampson.- Pamela Samuelson.- Jorge Sanz.- W. Earl Sasser Jr.- Benjamin Schneider.- Carl J. Schramm.- John D. Sterman.- Stephen L. Vargo.- Lars Witell.- Valarie Zeithaml.- Anatoly Zherebtsov.

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