Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in knowledge-based capital could be made a more dynamic source of growth and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains …

the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …