This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

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 work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …

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 …

hypotheses that entrepreneurship and university-industry relations are vehicles for knowledge flows and, thus, spur economic …Knowledge is recognized as a crucial element of economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. Knowledge …, identify, and exploit knowledge depends on the existing knowledge stock and the absorptive capacity of actors such as employees …

Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag …Setting up an innovative new firm is a way of commercializing knowledge. The paper gives an overview of the extent of … new firm formation in knowledge intensive and in innovative German industries and their development. The founding of a new …

characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … Gründungen auf die Regionalentwicklung vorgeschlagen. Erstens fanden sie Hinweise darauf, dass wesentliche Effekte der Gründungen … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …

characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … Gründungen auf die Regionalentwicklung vorgeschlagen. Erstens fanden sie Hinweise darauf, dass wesentliche Effekte der Gründungen … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at … evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm formation is enhanced by entrepreneur's prior technological knowledge … but not by prior market and organizational knowledge. Moreover we find that prior technological knowledge gathered through …

This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be … studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six ECE countries, we suggest that KBE firms in these countries may differ in … some important ways from the conventional picture of new technology based firms. In general, we see the ECE knowledge …

Following the broad overview of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries … (Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the … role of "knowledge customizers" rather than "knowledge creators"; in an international comparison, even with other post …