that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …

In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers … world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … development, and social cohesion. To this end, we first developed UNDP-type performance indicators on these six main dimensions of …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …