A History of Enterprise Policy: Government, Small Business and Entrepreneurship - A History of Enterprise Policy: Government, Small Business and Entrepreneurship -

What Is Enterprise Policy and Why Is it Important?Aims and Purpose The Story of UK Enterprise Policy Is Enterprise Policy Effective?Historical Institutionalism Structure of the Book Pre and Early Enterprise Policy Agendas Formalising an Enterprise Policy Agenda Thatcher and the Enterprise Culture Post-Thatcher, New Ideas?Conclusion Government, Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century The Nineteenth-Century Small Firm Individualism Reluctant to Change?An Era of Laissez-Faire?Local Politics Challenging Times for Small Businesses Politics at the Turn of the Century The Great War Conclusion Filling the Finance Gap Beginning the Interwar Years The Doldrum Twenties and the Intractable Million Political Responses The Great Slump A Near Miss in Proto Enterprise Policymaking The Macmillan Committee Representing Small Firms to the Committee The Macmillan Gap: The Birth of UK Enterprise Policy Was There a Macmillan Gap?Unemployment Continues to Grow Credit for Industry The Second World War The Post-War Labour Government The Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation The Radcliffe Committee Conclusion Regional Enterprise Policy The Need for Regional Policy The Special Areas Act 1934 Financing the Special Areas Trading Estates in the Special Areas Evaluative Overview Planning for Post-War Reconstruction National Industrial Organisation The Development Areas Treasury Advisory Committee The 1950s and the Conservatives Regional Policy but Little Room for Small Businesses?Negotiating the Post-War Consensus on Government and Industry The Confederation of British Industry Conclusion Early Lobbying and Debating the Role of Government Economic Decline?Acorns to Oaks Making the Case for Small Firms Establishing a Small Firms Inquiry What Was Known About Small Firms?The Bolton Committee and Its Wider Context Report and Its Findings Small Firm Finance Regions and Unemployment Support and Advisory Services Conclusion Taxation, Lobbying and a Voice for Small Business The Conservatives’ New Political Agenda The Response to the Bolton Report The Small Firms Division Small Firms Information Centres Courting the Small Firm Vote The National Enterprise Board Council of Small Industries in Rural Areas The Ongoing Political Exclusion of Small Businesses?The Voice of Enterprise Conclusion The Europeanisation of Enterprise Policy Joining the EEC State Aid and the EEC Aid for Enterprise Policy The European Regional Development Fund The Move Away From Keynesian Interventionism Enterprise Policy Responses to the Crises The Wilson Committee and Small Firm Finance Conclusion Neoliberalism and Enterprise Culture Thatcher’s Election The Shift in Ideology to ‘Neoliberalism’Small Business Revivalism Enterprise Culture The Department for Enterprise Enterprise Allowance Scheme Small Businesses as Job Creators Finance for Small Firms in the Enterprise Culture The Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme The Business Start-Up Scheme Conclusion Market Liberalisation and Deregulation The Conservative Government New Approaches to Regional Policy Enterprise Zones Local Enterprise Agencies Inner Cities Regional Funding Deregulation Obstacles to Deregulation Relaunching the Deregulation Agenda Conclusion Tackling Deadweight and Displacement Through Consultancy The Enterprise Initiative The Subsidising of Consultancy Training and Enterprise Councils TECs and Enterprise Policy TEC Delivery Major Replaces Thatcher Small Business Finance in the 1990s One Stop Shops The Creation of Business Link: A One Stop Franchise The Function of Business Link Business Link Delivery Investors in People and Quality Standards Conclusion Enterprise Policy as an Answer to Deprivation and Exclusion New Labour The Small Business Service Better Regulation Business Support and Advice Access to Finance Joined Up Enterprise Policymaking The Enterprise Gap Evaluating SBS New Labour and Regional Development Simplifying Small Business Support The 2008 Financial Crisis Austerity Britain Coalition Enterprise Policy The Post-Coalition Conservative Governments Conclusion The Development of Small Firms as an Interest Group Enterprise Policy Ideas The Failure of Ideas The Future of Enterprise Policy Methodological Appendix Sources Our Approach Historical Institutionalism Book Structure