We suggest that a political leader or a political administration can be described in terms of a public sector entrepreneurship framework. To illustrate, we define the actions of US President Donald Trump’s Administration to refocus the emphasis of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an innovative public policy initiative. And, we explore empirically the social consequences of those actions in terms of changes in the number of STEM employees at the EPA and the number of attendant innovative scientific publications. We find that declining experienced STEM employees at the EPA during President Trump’s Administration is associated with declining innovative environmental scientific publications.

我们建议可以根据公共部门创业框架来描述政治领袖或政治行政部门。为了说明这一点，我们定义了美国总统唐纳德特朗普政府将环境保护局 (EPA) 的重点重新定位为一项创新的公共政策倡议的行动。而且，我们根据 EPA 的 STEM 员工数量和随之而来的创新科学出版物数量的变化，从经验上探讨了这些行动的社会后果。我们发现，在特朗普总统执政期间，EPA 经验丰富的 STEM 员工人数减少与创新环境科学出版物的减少有关。