This essay uses Edmund Phelps’ new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change … (Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … niggardly evaluation of European innovation, and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of …

knowledge spillovers; they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the linkages … between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the determinants of patent quality in terms … centrality of respective institutions within innovation networks reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do not …