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entrepreneurship onto the policy agenda of Western nations. Obstacles to economic progress were gradually being dismantled. These … way to catch up. Both forms of innovation and entrepreneurship, however, benefit from the same positive entrepreneurial …
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Entrepreneurship can have important positive effects linked to job creation, wealth and income generation, innovation … mechanism through which entrepreneurship can be encouraged, grown and its economic benefits harnessed. The effect of regulatory … conditions on entrepreneurship however is not well understood, and can be nuanced given the wide range of regulatory tools and …
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This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. By examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
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Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...
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the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the regional level differs between the U.S. and Sweden. By … regressing annual entrepreneurship on regional employment growth (and controlling for other conceivable variables impacting … employment growth) entrepreneurship is shown to be positively and significantly associated with regional growth in both countries …
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of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries. …
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The general motivation for this paper is the current interest in globalization as a phenomenon that strongly affects the conditions of local economic development. Our purpose is to contribute to some of the current development aspects, in particular those that foster the evolution of...
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In recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy. For example, the evolution in recent decades of the developed economies has been accompanied by a regional shift in economic activity away from traditional industrial regions to new agglomerations of high...
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Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused and converted into growth, is fragmented and partial. The neoclassical growth models disregarded the entrepreneur and viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary...
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of entrepreneurship and innovations for economic development in … functional regions and in doing that highlighting the different conditions offered for entrepreneurship and innovations in … functional regions of various sizes. In conclusion, the conditions for entrepreneurship and innovations vary substantially …
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