PUBLIC LECTURE: Democracy and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has been claimed to matter and deserve priority because it has been linked to some of the most compelling economic and social issues of our time. This paper suggests that entrepreneurship is also inextricably linked to a fundamental value common among the western developed economies, democracy. Democracy constrains unbridled power by legacy companies, organizations and governments, which in turn, can suppress entrepreneurship. An important policy mandate for entrepreneurship may be to ensure the independent, decentralized and autonomous decision-making serving as a cornerstone of democracy. 

Join us as Professor David Audretsch dives deeper into this important topic. 

A Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, Professor Audretsch also serves as Director of the Institute for Development Strategies. Professor Audretsch further holds a part-time Professorship at the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria and is an honorary professor of Industrial Economics and Entrepreneurship at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany.