1. Setting the scene -- 2. A world of enterprise -- 3. Enterprising nations -- 4. Who are the entrepreneurs? -- 5. The start-up decision -- 6. Understanding business success : strategy, luck and policy -- 7. Financing entrepreneurship -- 8. Small firms and innovation -- 9. Antisocial, unlawful...

The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge gathering, knowledge transformation and knowledge exploitation. Here, we report a comparative panel data analysis of the IVC in Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small,...

Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation. Here, we reconsider the role of "home" and "export" market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable panel data for two small open economies - Ireland...