Enterpreneurship, Economic Growth and What Links Them Together.

The objective of this report is to synthesize strands of literature in order to link entrepreneurship to economic growth. This has been done by investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the following fields: historical views on entrepreneurship, marco-economic growth theory, industrial economics (viz. Porter's competitive advantage of nations), evolutionary economics, history of economic growth; (rise and fall of nations) and the management literature on large corporate and governmental organisations.