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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004

Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...

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Flocking to the crowd : cultural entrepreneur mobility guided by homophily, market size, or amenities?

Noonan, Douglas S.; Breznitz, Shiri M.; Maqbool, Sana - In: Journal of cultural economics 45 (2021) 4, pp. 577-611

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Networking entrepreneurs

Gurrieri, Antonia Rosa - In: The journal of socio-economics 47 (2013), pp. 193-204

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

Huggins, Robert; Thompson, Piers - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 103-128

Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics …. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that …

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The emergence of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Ghio, Niccolò; Guerini, Massimiliano; Lehmann, Erik; … - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 1, pp. 1-18

spillovers and entrepreneurship theory: the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE). This study conducts a …

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Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 4, pp. 801-817

development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

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Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship in an endogenous growth model

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 775-795

We present a model that separates entrepreneurship from profit-motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing … production processes. Our model embeds the core idea of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in established …

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Regional knowledge production and entrepreneurial firm creation: Spatial Dynamic Analyses

Lee, In Hyeock; Hong, Eunsuk; Sun, Laixiang - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 10, pp. 2106-2115

This study assesses whether and to what extent new knowledge available in a region and its surrounding regions induces and facilitates new firm creation, an important topic that is largely left untested in the literature. Using a full population firm-level dataset of 44,434 newly created...

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What turns knowledge into innovative products? The role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers

Block, Joern; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Haibo - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 693-718

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

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