... that public policy is an important element in the nascent field of enterprise development for nano-based materials. It outlines how different contexts create different barriers to entrepreneurship, and it proposes recommendations to overcome some of these barriers. Anna Glaser is the corresponding...

.... Practical implications The paper aims to inform public policy on how to support high‐growth entrepreneurship. From a policy perspective, understanding these trigger points is essential for helping policymakers to prioritise and optimise their interventions to help promote rapid firm growth. Originality...

... maintaining a high response rate and enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the data submitted. David Rae can be contacted at: drae@lincoln.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Entrepreneurship Enterprise Higher education Public policy Educational policy Investments...

... public policy that promotes creation of collaborative business relationships. Design/methodology/approach Hamel's theory of inter‐partner learning is built upon to explain the possible reasons why firms fail to derive learning‐related benefits from participation in collaborative relationships...

..., 1998 ; Schneider, 2001 ; Schneider and Enste, 2002), tackling such work has risen to the top of public policy agendas in the western world and well beyond (European Commission, 1998, 2002, 2003 ; Grabiner, 2000 ; International Labour Office, 2002 ; OECD, 2000). Indeed, at the Lisbon Summit in 2003...