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Economic development through entrepreneurship : government, university and business linkages
Shane, Scott Andrew (contributor) - 2005
entrepreneurship. This book fills that gap, focusing on policy aspects of government-university partnerships with a discussion both of …1. An historical perspective on government-university partnerships to enhance entrepreneurship and economic development … -- 2. Government policies to encourage economic development through entrepreneurship : the case of technology transfer -- 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851173
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Academic entrepreneurship : university spinoffs and wealth creation
Shane, Scott Andrew - 2004
In this unique and timely volume, Scott Shane systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation in the United States and elsewhere. The importance of university spinoff activity is discussed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851600
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A general theory of entrepreneurship : the individual-opportunity nexus
Shane, Scott Andrew - 2003
In the first exhaustive treatment of the field in 20 years, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by … entrepreneurial activity -- 7. The environmental context of entrepreneurship -- 8. Resource acquisition -- 9. Entrepreneurial strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851609
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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247890
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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies
Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltan J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247891
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Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore
Acs, Zoltan J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247894
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252210
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006
Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252214
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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824127
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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the … way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either economists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765248