claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated …. It is moreover also because there is no unified scientific approach towards the role of entrepreneurship in economic …

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …