allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship … together, the volume illuminates whether the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth is likely to be …"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations …

Entrepreneurship is thought to be a key driver of economic growth. While there are myriad forms of entrepreneurship … research provides evidence that the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth is driven not by overall quantity … of new firm entry, but rather by a small subset of high-growth startups that are primarily categorized as innovation …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively …, integrating intermittent resources creates additional grid management challenges, requiring further innovation. This chapter …

This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and … or entrepreneurship ultimately spur economic growth? Does innovation or entrepreneurship affect economic performance and …

that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees … employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this pattern, we introduce entry into a Schumpeterian growth model with … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to …

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …