Global Innovation Index (INSEAD)and the Democracy Index (The Economist). The selected countries are: Argentina, Brazil … growth, innovation and democracy. Findings - The comparison shows that Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have lower level of … economic growth, innovation performance and democracy level than South Korea, Spain and Croatia. The variety of capitalism in …

entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …

Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … environment is receptive to innovation. In addition, policymakers need to prepare for the potential job losses that can occur in …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …