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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies
Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864503
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Creating Strategic Advantage through EntrepreneurialGovernance in New Ventures
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governanceand corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864514
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864529
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The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth
Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864531
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The Localization of Entrepreneurship Capital - Evidence from Germany -
Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a … region’s capacity to create new firms start-ups as the region’s entrepreneurship capital. We then investigate the local … knowledge-based entrepreneurship capital is driven by local levels of knowledge creation and the acceptance of new ideas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864584
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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?
McMullen, Jeffery S.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
What an entrepreneurial opportunity is and from whence it comes are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being.In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864641
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The Knowledge Filter and Economic Growth: The Role of Scientist Entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B.; Aldridge, Taylor; Oetti, Alexander - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This study examines the prevalence and determinants of the commercialization of research by university scientists funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Because the two publicly available modes of scientist commercialization - patents and Small Business Innovation Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864962
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864991
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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What we Don't
Parker, Simon C. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864997