This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect …The literature on "Innovation Systems" is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic development has …

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 …

European housing systems - Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece Œ under the assumption that they had a different path other than …

In a former study (Carvalho 1995) we modeled the housing market in Portugal in a classic cross section framework and …