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Innovation and technological change : an international comparison

Acs, Zoltan J. (contributor) - 1991 - 1. [Dr.]

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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies

Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltan J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...

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Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore

Acs, Zoltan J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007

Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...

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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...

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Introduction: The startup process

Acs, Zoltan J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de Economia 35, 2 Year 2008, pp. 121-132

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in … empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary …

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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naudï¿½ - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 25 (2011) 2, pp. 116-129

This article reports the results of a national survey that estimates the rate of immigrant entrepreneurship in a …

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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J.; Tracy, Spencer - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally …

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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …

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