generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect …The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …

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 …

prosperity through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic …

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 penetrating the knowledge filter than are incumbent firms …

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the "new growth theory," investments in knowledge and human capital ge …-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not ex-plain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …

cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external knowledge. Absorptive capacity of firms develops as an outcome of … the interaction between absorptive R&D and cognitive distance from voluntary and involuntary knowledge spillovers. Thus …