A growing body of research explores how employees' organizational context shapes their entrepreneurial activity. We add to this work by examining how “educational mismatch” – when a job does not utilize the skills an employee has acquired during education – relates to subsequent...

We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods and the quality improvement of existing goods. While the latter is performed by the corporate R&D sector, the first is performed by entrepreneurs. We show that in a three sector...

This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002). The indirect supply-side effects of new firm births,...

Germany and the United States face a common challenge in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship to maintain their leadership in global markets, with the economic growth and employment both societies seek. To this end, innovative policies at national and regional level are needed so that...