entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …

important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …

whether a geographic cluster location and the knowledge spillovers new ventures assimilate influence both their explorative … and exploitative innovation activities.... …

strategic renewal, including process innovation and knowledge management. In our regression analyses we explain the variation in …

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge … and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does … not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link is the mechanism converting knowledge into economically relevant …

Germany and the United States face a common challenge in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship to maintain their … innovation to commercial reality.. …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason … for this is that the spatial dimension of knowledge production is still only partly understood in the empirical literature …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building …