employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative …

stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R&D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods …

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182 … its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that solo entrepreneurs and new venture teams do not differ in their … find that weak ties assist solo entrepreneurs and have positive significant effects on new venture performance. For team …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … exploration that would otherwise accrue to the entrepreneurs. Stronger patent protection will increase the incentive to do R&D and …