We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We … use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the …

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent … entrepreneurship (self-employed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship within established organizations. We shed new light on …

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. -- New Firms ; Innovation ; R&D ; firm growth …