, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a … factor for explaining growth, while the importance of domestic spillovers is limited. The growth volatility is substantively …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …