/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 …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …

A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of 'contextualized' theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …