This paper presents a systematic review of (a) the impact of entrepreneurship on economic,
social and environmental welfare and (b) the factors determining this impact. Research over …

This article examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and
systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value …

The present chapter deals with the consequences of entrepreneurship for macro-economic
growth. It consists of eight sections:(1) Introduction;(2) The influence of economic …

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link
between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover …

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting
point comes from the economics of innovation and technological change. This tradition …

Does a high level of new business formation in a region stimulate economic development? 1
While most people believe this is the case, a clear and indisputable empirical proof for the …

Previous research focuses on factors that influence self-employment participation, in part
because entrepreneurship has been associated with economic growth. This literature has …

I present information on self-employment from seventy countries. Self-employment rates are
generally down across the OECD. The main exceptions are the UK, and New Zealand. The …

There seems to be a cloud of scepticism hanging over the value of entrepreneurship to the
growth processes of developing economies. This haze of scepticism is fuelled by the …

Entrepreneurs create economic growth in their communities by forming new firms. Each year
during the past decade, more than half a million businesses were started that added new …