greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key … that the creation and survival of innovative start-ups should become one qualifying point of the economic policy agenda. … startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that …

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start … unfold a positive influence on survival for less innovative companies, while their highly innovative counterparts do not … benefit or even suffer from spatial concentration. On the contrary, highly innovative high-tech start-ups benefit from a …

innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an … innovation bloc of this kind, a system of innovation that evolves and within which activity takes place through time. The … innovation bloc consists of five pools of economic skills from which people are drawn or recruited to form part of a …

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

manufacturing. Results from our structural models indicate that KIS firms benefit from innovation activities through increased labor … productivity with highly skilled employees being similarly important compared to R&D for creating innovation output in microfirms …. Moreover, the firm size advantage of large firms found for manufacturing almost disappears in KIS, with start-ups and young …

We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on a collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), a system of innovation … skills from which people are drawn or recruited to form part of a collaborative team, which is necessary for innovation …