This paper examines the where, when and why of first round entrepreneurial investment activity in the United States …

to states of uncertainty be explicitly dealt with. We argue that ‘knowledge,’ because of the existence of uncertainty is …

Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … environment is receptive to innovation. In addition, policymakers need to prepare for the potential job losses that can occur in …

innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which a … into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technological … transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of sectoral …

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … the issue of selection bias (due to uncertainty) and that of zero-inflated data (i.e., presence of only a few highly …

innovation-related initiatives, one of which was the National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA) of 1984. It has been argued that …

growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …

Entrepreneurship in Germany has been stagnating. As a result, the effectiveness of technological innovation to improve … overview of technological innovation and labor productivity growth from 1871. From this we show that over the past three … decades the economy has found it increasingly difficult to transform technological innovation into labor productivity growth …