capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic output. A … production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for german regions …. The results indicate that entrepreneurship capital is a significant and important factor shaping output and productivity …

entrepreneurship and the geography effects on knowledge spillovers. To date the only international data that are collected on the basis … of exactly the same principles in each country are the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data. We use the 2001 GEM … cross-country data to measure the level of entrepreneurship in each particular economy. For this purpose we apply the TEA …

Entrepreneurship Monitor data, including total entrepreneurial activity rates for both women and men for 2002, as well as a range of …The present study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables … are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general …

Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the …