Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

Marcus Dejardin (1)

1 Faculté des Sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion, FUNDP

In this chapter, we propose a primer of the treatment that has received in the economic literature the problematic of entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered (also for a reference situation departing from the first best). Some policy implications are finally briefly evoked.

Mots clés: entrepreneurship; rent-seeking; economic development

Domaines: Economies et finances

Marcus Dejardin. Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior. David B. Audretsch, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Adam Lederer. Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, pp.17-23, 2011. ⟨halshs-00616302⟩