Technological change is a central element in macroeconomic growth explanation. Endogenous growth models take a revolutionary step towards better understanding the economic growth process by deriving technological change from profit-motivated individual behavior. In endogenous growth theory...

Studying the links between geography and technological change and between entrepreneurship and technological change can be difficult.This paper seeks to create an empirical framework that internalizes entrepreneurial activity and agglomeration effects on knowledge spillovers.The literature...

While the importance and the popularity of indices able to capture complex categories and the multidimensional nature of a particular phenomenon have been increasing, most approaches are still not able to provide plausible policy recommendations. The Penalty for Bottleneck (PFB) methodology is...