Economic Development Through Entrepreneurship: Government, University and Business Linkages examines the role that universities play in promoting economic development through entrepreneurship. The book focuses on policy aspects of government-university partnerships with a discussion of both best practices and problematic strategies. The book begins by tracing the history of American government-university-industry partnerships that have promoted economic development. In succeeding chapters, well known scholars focus on linkages in different domains such as: technology transfer, innovation networks, brain drain, cluster-based planning, and manufacturing. Practitioner commentaries follow many of the chapters in order to present an evaluation of the arguments from the perspective of someone directly involved in the fostering of these relationships.