R&D encompasses plenty of activities which are usually summarized under the terms of basic research, applied research and development. Although basic research is often associated with low appropriability it provides the fundamental basis for subsequent applied research and development....

Literature argues that the source of growth for high-tech industries emanates from technological progress, while that for low-tech industries comes from technical efficiency improvement. Also, some empirical studies have shown that technological progress is often accompanied by deterioration in...

This article uses an original dataset of 102 countries which uniquely enable us to distinguish between high-tech and low-tech entrepreneurs to examine the dissociative interplay between corruption, democracy, and the two kinds of entrepreneurship. Existing literature has demonstrated that...