What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

the data from the Innovation Survey 2011, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). We … large (500 or more employees). The paper not only analyzed the innovation rates of such groups, but the degree of … process. Still, small businesses are the main responsible for the introduction of new products in the domestic and world …

innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the …

attempt to search for directions, as well as the power of impact of different phases of the business cycle on the innovation … industrial companies (questionnaire survey) it was stated that in the prosperity phase the implementation of the innovation …, the innovation activity is a less common phenomenon, but is not completely abandoned. Research results did not confirm the …

' innovation in China. Based on a sample of 926 small businesses derived from the World Bank Enterprises Survey in China (2012), we … emerging economies where high uncertainties are a barrier to innovation. We know from previous studies that linkages to … find that university-industry linkages enhance innovation, though only when it comes to minor forms of innovation. In line …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical …

challenge: (i) to move closer to the current world technology frontier (traditional catch-up), and (ii) to adjust to …