This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation …. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that the role of social capital in innovation is different in East Asia …-based incentives are the most essential driving-force of innovation in the East Asian countries, whereas social trust does not play a …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

2006-2020, to capture the relationship between new business density rate, as a proxy for entrepreneurship, and individuals … entrepreneurship is influenced by the skills, knowledge, and experience of the entrepreneurs, including their education, training, and …. When separating the EU countries from the perspective of their Innovation Index performance, the threshold effect was …

businesses in this respect. -- agglomeration ; balanced skills ; entrepreneurship ; thick markets ; urban diversity …

employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship … opportunities which sell to other businesses. Implications of the findings are discussed. -- Nascent entrepreneurship …

employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship …

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, a positive causal effect of generalised trust on innovation activity is … defined and discussed. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of innovation by "interregional knowledge spillovers" is … empirically tested. It is found that spatial clustering of innovation activity can be better explained by a positive influence of …

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …