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Knowledge accessibility and New Firm Formation

Karlsson, Charlie; Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper investigates the role of knowledge for successful entrepreneurship. The paper explicitly discusses the role …

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Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Economic Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused and converted into growth, is fragmented and partial. The neoclassical growth models disregarded the entrepreneur and viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary...

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Clusters, Functional Regions and Cluster Policies

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper gives an overview of research on economic clusters and clustering and is motivated by the growing intellectual and political interest for the subject. Functional regions have the features that agglomeration of economic activities i.e. clusters, benefit from. Functional regions have...

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The knowledge filter, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Audrestch, David; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to … exploit them. While the prevailing view in the entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most … entrepreneurship and economic growth literatures by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created …

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