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 …