This comprehensive volume integrates pathbreaking and seminal scholarship from two interrelated fields - innovation and entrepreneurship - with the chapters providing a compelling link between the two. The editors seek to introduce and contextualize some of the most important research. Topics...

The times they are a-changin' -- It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that' -- When father knew best -- The deluge -- Brains not brawn -- The wall -- The road less traveled -- Not your father's university -- Won't get fooled again?

This paper suggests that the spillover of knowledge may not occur automatically as has typically been assumed in models of endogenous growth. Rather, a mechanism is required that serves as a conduit for the spillover and commercialization of knowledge from the source creating it to the firm...