Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

We analyze the interactions between positive and negative externalities in innovation and trade for economic growth in … is growth in the human capital stock but there are negative externalities in innovation. In this scenario, we show that … opening a region to trade leads to more innovation but to no change in its long run growth rate …

choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …

choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur’s innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

N IJKAMP P. (2003) Entrepreneurship in a modern network economy, Reg. Studies 37 , 395-405. In this survey paper the … literature on entrepreneurship is summarized from the perspective of geographical seedbed conditions and network constellations …. We argue that in many cases urban areas offer favourable incubator conditions for innovative entrepreneurship, as a …

Entrepreneurship among migrants - often called new, migrant or ethnic entrepreneurship - has over the past years become … a significant component of the urban economy in many developed countries. Migrant entrepreneurship has a considerable … welfare enhancing impact on the city, notably a contribution to innovation and growth, creation of new jobs for less favoured …