Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that … entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an … human capital and innovation are important for growth entrepreneurship,then higher education should have a significant role …

Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial locationas a micro-determinant of occupational …

economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across … individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generateshypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedomfrom corruption, and on ‘market freedom’ defined as a cluster of …-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey datataken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Our …. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurialentry, especially when the richest countries are removed …

, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent,infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at …

We study the effect of fair institutions on growth. In our model, individuals are endowed with unequal entitlements to …

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … have a robustnegative association with both corruption and inequality. Radios and TVs are alsoobserved to have a robust … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …