If entrepreneurship remains as important to the economy as ever, then the continuing failure of mainstream economics to adequately account for entrepreneurship indicates that fundamental principles require re-evaluation. It seems no longer possible to expect that only theoretical refinements and extending known principles can provide for a theory of entrepreneurship. This book contributes to the emergence of the entrepreneurial economics field, or school of thought, in which the study of patterns in the complex, seemingly chaotic and unpredictable process of entrepreneurship and its role in the economy stands central. Its articles provide interesting new ideas and insights on a theory of entrepreneurship in the economy (W.J. Baumol, D.B. Audretsch, A.V. Bhide) in Part One, and interesting recent research on entrepreneurship in Part Two.

如果企业家精神对经济的重要性一如既往，那么主流经济学继续未能充分解释企业家精神，这表明基本原则需要重新评估。似乎再也不可能期望只有理论上的改进和扩展已知的原则才能提供创业理论。这本书有助于创业经济学领域或思想流派的出现，在这一领域中，对复杂、看似混乱和不可预测的创业过程中的模式及其在经济中的作用的研究处于核心地位。其文章在第一部分提供了关于经济中创业理论的有趣的新观点和见解（W.J.Baumol，D.B.Audretsch，a.V.Bhide），在第二部分提供了关于创业的有趣的最新研究。