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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …

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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...

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International differences in entrepreneurship : implication for free trade commitment

Peltrault, Frédéric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004

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Do entrants increase incumbents' innovation activity? Escaping the lock-in, stimulating technological change and the transition towards environmentally friendly vehicles

Diekhof, Josefine - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°16 (2015) 1, pp. 101-137

In the context of technological transitions, the influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is a major driving force. Using worldwide patent data, the present study analyzes this influence for the case of the transition from combustion engine vehicles towards electrically powered alternative...

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Greece Needs a Strategy for Its Transition to an Innovation Economy

Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 10, pp. 3-10

Although Greece is showing initial signs of recovering from its 2008 crash, its economy continues to suffer. It has become clear that the economy will not become prosperous only by the given recommendations of the so called Troika, namely by cutting costs and public expenditures, and by making...

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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...

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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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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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