Lee, Patricia H. --- "The Role and Impact of Clinical Programs on Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth" [2012] ELECD 550; in Carpenter, M. Megan (ed), "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Evolving Economies" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Evolving Economies

Editor(s): Carpenter, M. Megan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857934697

Section: Chapter 9

Section Title: The Role and Impact of Clinical Programs on Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Author(s): Lee, Patricia H.

Number of pages: 30

Extract:

9. The role and impact of clinical
programs on entrepreneurship and
economic growth
Patricia H. Lee*

I. INTRODUCTION

The interplay of entrepreneurship law clinical programs and economic
growth first interested me when I directed the first entrepreneurship law
clinical program designed to represent entrepreneurs with their private
sector business transactions in 1998.1 The idea of dedicated law students
advocating on behalf of emerging entrepreneurs in a law school clinical



* ©2011 Professor Lee thanks Megan Carpenter, Professor of Texas Wesleyan
Law School for convening the Evolving Economies conference and book project
and all of the authors in this upcoming book; WVU College of Law Professors
William Rhee, Gregory Bowman, Jena Martin-Amerson, Atiba Ellis, and Megan
Annitto for their thoughtful comments about the scholarship; Brian Corcoran,
who as a third-year WVU law student and member of the Entrepreneurship,
Innovation and Law Program assisted with numerous hours of legal research
and data collection; Dallas F. Kratzer III, a second-year WVU law student, who
assisted with citations; Marcus Lee, from Northwestern University Medill School
of Journalism who provided helpful editorial and journalistic comments; Brandon
Lee, a volunteer with the National Institute for Urban Entrepreneurship who spent
many hours assisting with data entry and appendices; Professor Michael Risch
for his vision in founding the program at WVU College of Law and Dean Joyce
McConnell of WVU College of Law for her constant support of WVU law faculty,
staff and students.
1 William Mellor & Patricia H. Lee, Institute for Justice Clinic on

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