By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of...

Chapter One: General Introduction -- Chapter Two: Institutional Antecedents of Entrepreneurship and its Consequences on Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Analysis -- Chapter Three: Social Progress Orientation and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter Four: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 National Systems of Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3 Institutions, Incentives, and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index -- Chapter 5 Methodology and Data Description -- Appendices.