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... …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …, depending on their absorptive capacities. The importance and impacts of the ability of firms to use external knowledge sources … were inquired especially for external knowledge stemming from scientific research.... …

We investigate the contribution of different inputs, particularly different knowledge sources,on regional patenting … output in the framework of a knowledge production function. Theknowledge sources included are R&D employment, size of public …,public departments, German Science Foundation (DFG), and from other sources. Thecontribution of these knowledge sources is tested …

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