/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of … and/or higher quality universities with a positive effect on research and development (R&D) and knowledge spillovers …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge …A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to … productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …

firms having a higher probability of initiating innovation activities and of successfully turning knowledge into innovation … activities—R&D, innovative output, and productivity—hold for knowledge-intensive services. With especially high start-up rates … and the majority of employees in microfirms, knowledge-intensive services (KIS) have a starkly different profile from …

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …