We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …

investment. I show that a constraint on knowledge accumulation rationalizes this pattern and resolves the R&D puzzle. Structural …

capital. As technical knowledge expands, the rate of return on education increases, inducing individuals to stay longer in …

Contemporary theoretical approaches recognize well educated workers engaged in flexible employment as knowledge …, the article drawing upon data of 96 Greek firms belonging to knowledge-intensive business services, examines why and how … knowledge and abilities by well educated workers. However, this seems to be implemented often in a broadly casual context …

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

Knowledge-based groups or communities are complex systems that emerge, evolve and mature through stages that display … geographic structures and scales of knowledge flows and their influence on urban communities. Purpose – The purpose of the paper … is to examine the theory of knowledge networks through applied research Design/methodology/approach – This is a case …

This paper studies how firing costs affect the productivity of knowledge workers. We develop a holdup model in which … workers are essential to knowledge transfer between firms and show that if the worker's knowledge stock is sufficiently …

This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … -- ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …