Many countries and regions struggle with utilization of knowledge assets and they developed over the years research and innovation infrastructure to enhance innovation in the private sector. The objective of this study is to review the innovation policy initiatives promoting innovation and...

This work investigates the policy implications of the variety of development processes of start-up firms in a regional setting. The existing literature on entrepreneurship lacks accurate analysis of the processes that lead an idea of business to become an established firm. The present paper...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impacts of Florida’s regional features also called regional climate or people climate on creative class as well as the regional economic development effects of the creative class in Italy on the basis of data drawn from Creativity Group Europe:...

In most developed economies there exist a clear gap between men and women in terms of prevalence of entrepreneurial activity. The gender gap can be traced back to the general perceptions of gender in society, where entrepreneurial venturing is culturally defined as a masculine activity. In this...

In this paper, we use the systematic, descriptive, and statistical approaches; fill the gap in the Arab literature; and examine the incidence and transfer of knowledge in the Arab countries. Our findings support the first hypothesis that the components of knowledge show positive correlation with...

This paper tests the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) on economic growth for ASEAN5+3 countries consisting of Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Korea and China using panel data set from 1975 to 2006. In this paper, we investigate the impact of...

There is a wide literature about business incubators (BIs), especially about successful cases in high tech and knowledge intensive industries. Despite that, there is neither a viable integrative theory of effective business incubation nor clear guidelines about the preconditions for establishing...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a classification scheme for the knowledge economy and society. By using Mode 3 and the quadruple helix theories, this paper models enterprise instances of networking among academia, government, industry, and civil society, all of whom are actors in the...

Over the past few decades, ASEAN countries have achieved varying levels of economic development. In this paper, the nature and extent of productivity changes of ASEAN5 countries, namely, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore, are analysed over the period 1993 to 2006. The...