This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital ge …-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not ex-plain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

drive innovation. -- Entrepreneurship ; Development; Stages of Growth ; Globalization ; Innovation ; Index ; Knowledge …

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 … "knowledge filter" between new knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason … for this is that the spatial dimension of knowledge production is still only partly understood in the empirical literature …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building …