Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyse technology‐based entrepreneurship and
its importance for economic growth. Firstly, it discusses the concept of technology‐based …

Similar to the creation and distribution of new knowledge through industrial R&D and
university research, entrepreneurial activity tends to vary across regions. Therefore the …

Ô... the book is an important reading in the field of entrepreneurship. One of its main
contributions is that it clearly shows that the process of new firm formation is a regional …

The importance and contribution of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) to long-term
economic development is at the centre of a controversial debate. This paper provides an …

In this paper, we investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in a cross section of
German regions for the period 1998–2005. Departing from the knowledge spillover theory of …

Considerable advances, even breakthroughs, have been made during the last decades in
our understanding of the relationship between knowledge and growth on one hand, and …

We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a
region on current levels of new business formation in innovative industries. The analysis is …

We trace the relationship between changes in the supply of capabilities from Chalmers
University of Technology and the extent and nature of technologybased entrepreneurship in …

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 …

Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for
growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a …