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 …

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

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 …

capital play on different types of entrepreneurship. As inequality increases, both forms of capital become weaker deterrents … of entry into necessity entrepreneurship, whereas for opportunity entrepreneurship, only financial capital becomes a … decreasing marginal returns on the likelihood of entry into necessity entrepreneurship, and that in the case of opportunity …

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

. -- strategic entrepreneurship ; multi-level analysis ; intellectual property protection ; growth aspirations …

Entrepreneurship research highlights entrepreneurship as a simultaneous source of enhanced income mobility for some but … problematize various sources of income inequality, but attention to entrepreneurship as an increasingly prevalent occupational …