Entrepreneurship and Antitrust

Date01 December 2016
Published date01 December 2016
DOI10.1177/0003603X16677780
Article
Entrepreneurship and Antitrust:
Introduction and Overview
Gregory T. Gundlach* and Diana Moss**
Abstract
Despite the importance of entrepreneurship to innovation and economic growth, measures of busi-
ness startups and other indications of entrepreneurial activity remain below historic norms. Conse-
quently, growing interest resides at the intersection of antitrust and entrepreneurship. This special
issue of the Antitrust Bulletin examines the nature and importance of entrepreneurship to the economy,
the challenges that entrepreneurial activity poses for antitrust policy and analysis, and solutions
intended to address those challenges.
Keywords
antitrust, entrepreneurship, innovation, competition, economic growth
I. Introduction
The American Antitrust Institute’s (AAI) 2015 Invitational Symposium, ‘‘Entrepreneurship And
Antitrust: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,’’ examined the growing complexity and increasing
questions that define the intersection of entrepreneurial activity and antitrust. In the spring of
2015, experts from law, economics, and business convened for the day-long symposium and
offered insights on the nature and importance of entrepreneurship to the economy, the challenges
that entrepreneurial activity poses for antitrust policy and analysis, and solutions intended to
address those challenges. The event was a milestone in a larger AAI project on the inte rplay
of entrepreneurship and antitrust made possible by a grant from the Ewing Mario n Kauffman
Foundation.
AAI’s focus on entrepreneurship and antitrust is motivated by the importance of entrepreneurial
activity to economic growth and the significance to antitrust of economic progress that results from
innovation. Research documents that despite in 2015 climbing back to levels found prior to the Great
Recession, indices of business startup activity—a measure of firms in a position to co ntribute to
*University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA; and American Antitrust Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
**American Antitrust Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
Corresponding Author:
Gregory T. Gundlach, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
Email: ggundlac@unf.edu
The Antitrust Bulletin
2016, Vol. 61(4) 471-478
ªThe Author(s) 2016
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