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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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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 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 sevice sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864727
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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
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 Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865252