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 …

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.... …