Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

. New evidence is provided, based on a comprehensive, large-scale survey of technology-based firms located in Portugal … development for an economy like Portugal (lagging behind in terms of human capital stock, and seeming to have lost part of its …

an increasingly knowledge based economy and an important lever of social cohesion policy. However, existing studies …

-scale survey of firms located in Portugal, and controlling for firms’ structural (i.e. size, age and industry), strategic (R&D and …

Entrepreneurial activities are seen as key drivers of innovation, job creation, and economic growth. Recent efforts are …

"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …

, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent … of new firm entry, but rather by a small subset of high-growth startups that are primarily categorized as innovation …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …