/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

codified knowledge determine the returns on different occupational choices in different environments. The data are drawn from … privileged access to tacit knowledge, thus confirming previous analyses on the role of social learning (e.g. Guiso and Schivardi …, 2005). On the other hand, we show that the returns on codified knowledge in entrepreneurial activities increase in more …

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …

This paper investigates regional sources of entrepreneurial opportunities of knowledge-intensive start-up activity …. Thereby it is investigated whether it makes a difference if the knowledge-intensive sector is a newly emerging industry … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in East and West Germany in the 1990s. At the time of German re-unification in 1990 …

knowledge: rational, emotional and spiritual. This goal is transposed into practice throughout exploratory quantitative research …