development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

We present a model that separates entrepreneurship from profit-motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing … production processes. Our model embeds the core idea of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in established …

-national, industrial-level data for nine selected European countries in order to investigate the link between entrepreneurship …:759–784, <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">1995</CitationRef>), they find that both agglomeration and entrepreneurship exhibit a statistically … rates but leaves out the effects induced by agglomeration and entrepreneurship on the level of knowledge. This might lead to …