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 …