special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation … that results in a persistent culture of innovative entrepreneurship. In Mecklenburg, such a culture did never emerge …

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in … empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary …

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …

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 …