entrepreneurship and economic growth literatures by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created … endogenously results in knowledge spillovers that give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by entrepreneurs. …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have … application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm … previously worked in a patenting firm (the learning-by-hiring effect), but firms losing a knowledge worker are also shown to …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge are interrelated. Yet, a comprehensive … understanding is still lacking concerning the interface of all of those variables: knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and … relationship between knowledge and growth on one hand, and entrepreneurship and growth on the other. Similarly, more profound …

universities on regional productivity in knowledge-based industries is ex-amined. …

Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused … viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary current knowledge-based growth models have re-introduced the notion of … the entrepreneur, however stripped of its most typical characteristics, and the diffusion of knowledge is kept exogenous …

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. According to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital generate … economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the economy. Particular … specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These two countries have been …