-Classification: D21, J23, L80, O30 Keywords: Employment growth; Entrepreneurship; Entry; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive business …Knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) are an important element of modern economies and thus attracting … increasing interest in scientific research. In the existing literature it is argued that due to the important role of knowledge …

Knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) are an important element of modern economies and thus attracting … increasing interest in scientific research. In the existing literature it is argued that due to the important role of knowledge …, innovation and userproducer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional integration and spatial proximity are particularly …