This study examines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth by using a new variable based on patent data to … proxy for productive entrepreneurship. Data on self-employment is used as an alternative proxy. The study considers 22 OECD … countries and finds a positive relationship between the proposed measure of productive entrepreneurship — degree of …

Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth. Unemployment in South Africa is presently at about 25 … challenge. Entrepreneurship, through the creation of new ventures and expansion of business firms, can make a difference to … the entrepreneurial environmental conditions in South Africa and then examines how entrepreneurship can make a difference …

This paper examines the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the West Bank of the … evidence the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth; second, to explore the effect of two control variables on the … GDP and unemployment. The results show that contrary to a reservoir of research, entrepreneurship appeared to have no …