Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1. Introduction to Business Incubators -- 2. Business Incubator and Incubation: A Background -- 3. Research Objectives, Methodology and Sample Profiles -- 4. Start-Ups and Incubation: An Understanding -- 5. Analysis and Findings -- 6....

This paper examines the impact of start-up regulations and institutional quality on the level of new business activity in a panel of 119 countries between 2001 and 2012. We find robust evidence that new business creation is significantly lower in countries with excessive barriers to entry, a...

Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of...