institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …

culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …

discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. -- Entrepreneurship ; new business … ; formation ; innovative industries ; regional development ; entrepreneurship policy …

We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of … indicates the prevalence of a regional culture of entrepreneurship. Moreover, local presence and geographic proximity to a …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …