Putting the Young in Business Policy Challenges for Youth Entrepreneurship

Policy Challenges for Youth Entrepreneurship

This book sets out a potential response to two major challenges facing OECD countries: the "youth problem", or the need to ensure that young people can play a full role in society, and the need to foster entrepreneurship for job creation.

Can policy makers find a solution in stronger promotion of youth entre-
preneurship, i.e., self-employment? Before beginning to seek an answer to that
question, one must understand something about the nature of entre- preneurship
in the ...