paradigm crisis, highlighting the strong links between the exploitation of knowledge and the accumulation of surplus. Therefore …, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the …

/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 …

scientific and technological knowledge, the cognitive basis of entrepreneurship, and the competences for managing market and non … knowledge-base needed for their peoples' well-being and their firms' competitive success in international markets. Nor does the … information infrastructure investments in order to reduce the costs of effective access to global knowledge bases in science and …

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … endogenously via R&D results in knowledge spillovers. Such spillovers give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by …

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 …

area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

machinery and for the importance of knowledge spillovers, we find that jobs characterized by a unique knowledge base exhibit … higher levels of geographic concentration than do occupations with generic knowledge requirements. Further, by analyzing co …-agglomeration patterns, we find that occupations with similar knowledge requirements tend to co-agglomerate. Both results provide new …

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 …