D. Kurz (eds). Volume 3. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, forthcoming. We analyze competition as … rivarly in a race, as a specific market structure, and as a discovery procedure. We also explore the relation of competition … with class struggle and competition policy. …

The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

This article tests the hypothesis that entrepreneurs' confidence in innovation has a positive effect on their … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM. An organizational innovation confidence index is constructed from three questions … their daily work, and use new products and services that will improve their working life. Innovation is measured by two …

capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge - as a distinct channel through which firm …

Research on sustainability and innovation-driven economic growth has exposed a lack of sufficient knowledge in the … governance literature about the appropriate extent of government involvement. This paper focuses on the governance of innovation … the concept of intermediation in the innovation process. The paper employs the Triple Helix model, which describes …

knowledge and entrepreneurial activity that is negatively moderated by localized competition. We also find that greater … agglomeration counteracts the moderating effect localized competition has on the relationship between new knowledge and …The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship predicts that entrepreneurial activity is greater in regions with …

ideas are perfect complements, product market competition is unambiguously bad for growth. eywords: …