Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and The Economics of Science
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        William N. Butos
        
The paper distinguishes two types of entrepreneurial activity in terms of their institutionally relevant contexts. Type 1 (Kirznerian) entrepreneurship refers to catallactic activity in which coordinating mechanisms, operating via the exchange of property rights, generates market prices. We identify Type 2 entrepreneurship with noncatallactic processes.The paper argues that scientific activity, despite exhibiting characteristics congenial to the economic way of thinking, cannot be generally studied as a catallactic process under prevailing institutional arrangements. Recent changes in the institutional context of science, however, suggest a widening scope for treating science as a market activity.Cet article fait la distinction entre deux types dactivité entrepreneuriale suivant les contextes institutionnels où ils apparaissent. Le premier type (kirznerien) dactivité entrepreneuriale sinscrit dans un cadre catallactique où les mécanismes de coordination opérant à travers léchange des droits de propriété génèrent les prix marchands. Le second type dactivité entrepreneuriale que nous identifions relève de processus non catallactiques. Larticle soutient que, même si elle présente des caractéristiques qui pourraient relever de la pensée économique, lactivité scientifique telle quelle est pratiquée dans les conditions institutionnelles actuelles, ne peut en général pas être étudiée comme un processus catallactique.Cependant, les changements récents dans le contexte institutionnel de la science suggèrent la possibilité grandissante denvisager la science comme une activité marchande.
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