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 …

education, innovation, and entrepreneurship to foster transformative businesses and achieve long-run economic growth … entrepreneurship tends to be negative, it is strongly positive among transformative entrepreneurs. Transformative entrepreneurs, often … opportunities for inventors. In contrast, average entrepreneurs are more influenced by their family's entrepreneurship background …

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

Entrepreneurship has been traditionally concentrated in the hands of a few small communities in most developing …

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

-documented relationships between economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Yet despite good intentions, many of these … launch sustained successful efforts to promote entrepreneurship over sustained periods. I highlight several critical …

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and … entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance …

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …