knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as their relevance for entrepreneurship. An occupational … compensating pull of entrepreneurship in countries with low uncertainty avoidance may have gained momentum in recent years. Third …

Most studies investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth treat entrepreneurs as a … countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we investigate whether the impact on growth depends on socio …-demographic diversity in entrepreneurship (in terms of age, education and gender). We find that in less developed countries older and higher …

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

While it is generally acknowledged that entrepreneurship as well as export activity may both be important strategies … the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for a sample of 36 countries. An important advantage of using the macro-level is that …-stage ventures to macro-economic out-comes. Our results suggest that export-oriented entrepreneurship is indeed more important for …

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …