Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics …. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that …

Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge …-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have …. This paper therefore assesses the effect of spillovers in driving per capita output growth taking into account the role of …

(Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration … institutions are needed to keep entrepreneurs in check. A gradual take-off to perpetual growth is explained by a feedback effect … stagnation differs from balanced growth by the presence of relatively many small firms of low productivity. …

This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and … perpetual growth is explained by a feedback effect from investment to the formation of long-distance links and the diffusion of …. Structurally, the equilibrium of stagnation differs from balanced growth by the presence of relatively many small firms of low …

bearing on their growth rates. The present paper analyses the hypothesis that the types of imported capital goods and the … sources of their origin matter for growth. We construct a new index that measures the level of knowledge embodied in a country … the year 1995, leads to high growth rate of per capita income in the subsequent years during 1995~2005, that is, 10 …