This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. According to the "new growth theory", investments in knowledge and human capital generate … economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

In this paper the profitability of German car manufacturing firms is related to different indicators for the knowledge … information about the kind of exit of the firms is exploited to construct a latent profitability variable. Knowledge is … knowledge is significantly positively related to firm profitability and that each of the three knowledge forms exerts an …

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a … approach that links instrumental variable estimation with the Cox regression. The main results are that all three knowledge …

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle …. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity … positively influence the survival chances of firms. This paper investigates how the kinds of knowledge are able to compensate for …