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 …

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent … entrepreneurship (self-employed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship within established organizations. We shed new light on …

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 …

trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a sample of 29 market economies. Memberships in formal groups …

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM. An organizational innovation confidence index is constructed from three questions …This article tests the hypothesis that entrepreneurs' confidence in innovation has a positive effect on their … organizational innovation confidence on innovation. Therefore, the Iranian owner managers who have more confidence in innovation act …

and significantly correlated also to higher levels of satisfaction and confidence in public services. Participation in …

and significantly correlated also to higher levels of satisfaction and confidence in public services. Participation in … ; Entrepreneurship ; Corporate ties ; Group and Interpersonal Processes ; Social Perception and Cognition …