Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper suggests that the spillover of knowledge may not occur automatically as has typically been assumed in models … knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …