Scott Shane seems to delight in sharing harsh realities about entrepreneurship and economic development.

Shane, a Case Western Reserve University economics professor who authors a regular column for Business Week, castigates a culture that promotes a “naive view of entrepreneurship and starting businesses” in his 2008 book “The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By.”

The reality is very, very few entrepreneurs are successful. “We overinflate the positives and talk only about a small group of extremely successful start-ups like Apple, Google and Federal Express, but ignore the much larger number that fail,” he said in an interview with Case’s news center to promote the book.

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