Handbook of Research on Innovation and EntrepreneurshipDavid B. Audretsch, O. Falck, S. Heblich This path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and e |
Contents
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3 Entrepreneurship and rentseeking behavior | 17 |
4 Who values the status of the entrepreneur? | 24 |
PART II INSTITUTIONS INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 43 |
5 Industrial policy entrepreneurship and growth | 45 |
6 The role of patents and licenses in securing external finance for innovation | 55 |
evidence from German reunification | 74 |
PART IV TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 271 |
17 Startup firms from research in US universities | 273 |
entrepreneurial explorations and exploitations | 290 |
managerial and policy implications | 300 |
entrepreneurship versus technology transfer | 315 |
21 What do scientists think about commercialization activities? | 337 |
PART V FIRMS AND INNOVATION | 355 |
22 Small firms and innovation | 357 |
8 Financing constraints and entrepreneurship | 88 |
9 The new Argonauts and the rise of venture capital in the periphery | 104 |
10 Institutional impact on the outreach and profitability of microfinance organizations | 119 |
PART III KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS THE GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GROWTH | 135 |
classical and random urban growth models | 137 |
a 20 years perspective on the field on geography of innovation | 150 |
interdependencies irregularities and regularities | 161 |
the driving force of innovation entrepreneurship and economic development | 214 |
15 Innovation entrepreneurship and the search for knowledge spillovers | 229 |
16 Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship innovation and economic growth | 245 |
causes and effects | 365 |
a tale of incentives knowledge and needs | 382 |
25 How do young innovative companies innovate? | 403 |
26 Entrepreneurship innovation and institutions | 421 |
comparing entrepreneurial with routinized innovators | 439 |
impact on innovativeness in regional clusters | 448 |
29 The genetics of entrepreneurship | 471 |
30 Entrepreneurship education | 486 |
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