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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836495
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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The return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle
Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Toivanen, Otto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The returns to entrepreneurship are monetary and non-monetary. We offer new evidence on these returns using a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924822
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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787197
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The Multipliers and Key Sectors of Entrepreneurship Spillover: An input-output approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Entrepreneurship Spillover evaluates the systemic effect of creating enterprises in different sectors and … industries from a new firm created in a given sector. One way to estimate these Entrepreneurship Spillovers is doing an … are: (a) to develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship spillover; (b) to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790228
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Environmental consequences of economic growth and foreign direct investment: evidence from panel data analysis
Muhammad, Shahbaz; Samia, Nasreen; Talat, Afza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper is aimed at investigating non-linear relationship between foreign direct investment and environmental degradation using panel data of 110 developed and developing economies. The results indicated that environmental Kuznets curve exists and foreign direct investment increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220680
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Natural Resource Curse; what is the relationship to Economic Development, Income Inequality and Poverty? Do institutions and Good Governance matte...
Bannerman, Efua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of this study is to econometrically investigate whether the Dutch Disease and Rent Seeking effects related to the Natural Resource Curse, undermine Foreign Direct Investment’s effect on Economic Development, Income Inequality and Poverty. This involves a cross-country analysis of 69...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555435
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Endogenous human capital formation, distance to frontier and growth
Basu, Sujata; Mehra, Meeta K - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We examine human capital's contribution to economy-wide technological progress through two channels -- imitation and innovation -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than innovation. We develop a growth model considering an endogenous ability-driven skill acquisition decision of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538856
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The role of education in regional innovation activities and economic growth: spatial evidence from China
Chi, Wei; Qian, Xiaoye - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study examines one of the channels through which education may contribute to economic growth, specifically, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055488
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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168467