This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation …/entrepreneurship and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …

innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this … individual country's knowledge stock.' Further, the predicted level of national innovative capacity has an important impact on …

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …