Modeling the spatial aspect of growth has finally become an important subject of economics as exemplified by the increasing popularity of the new economic geography. However, new economic geography models have still not been able to develop a consistent approach to integrate innovation, space...

1 Introduction: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems -- 2 Building Composite Indicators for Policy Optimization Purposes -- 3 World Technology Frontier: Directed Technical Change and the Relevance of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem -- 4 The Entrepreneurship Paradox: The Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of regional economic development by constructing a regional entrepreneurship index that captures the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of economic and social development in the...