Do the presence and nature of entrepreneurship impact on national happiness, and are nations with happy citizens better … for entrepreneurs to start new businesses? To provide tentative answers we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and … subjective well-being and use various data sources to uncover the first evidence of the relationship between entrepreneurship and …

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research … Entrepreneurship Monitor’s methodologies, the National Experts Survey, to a sample of 695 key informants in Chile at eight regions of … core regions. The main results indicate that peripherally located entrepreneurship experts perceive their regions as in a …

development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship identifies new knowledge as a source of entrepreneurial … firms or research institutions. This paper argues that, knowledge spillover entrepreneurship depends not only on new … entrepreneurship is tested using data based on U.S. metropolitan areas. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013 …

This article is an introduction to the special issue from the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference …. The second is to present a summary of the papers in the context of the utility of GEM data in comparative entrepreneurship …

We present a model that separates entrepreneurship from profit-motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing … production processes. Our model embeds the core idea of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in established …