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Foundations and TrendsŪ in Entrepreneurship

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

by Pontus Braunerhjelm (The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Economic Growth provides an understanding of the forces that underpin the creation of knowledge, its diffusion and commercialization, and the role of the entrepreneur in these dynamic processes. The main objective is to identify the microeconomic foundation of growth, the extent to which contemporary models fail in that respect, and suggest improvements.

Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Economic Growth is organized into four parts:

  • The theoretical aspects of entrepreneurship, knowledge, growth at the regional and national levels, and the implications of agglomerated structures on growth. It draws on the advances made in the fields of economic geography and endogenous growth, together with findings in evolutionary, entrepreneurial, institutional and regional economics.
  • The empirical findings, emphasizing the interfaces between entrepreneurship, knowledge and growth.
  • The policy implications are reviewed with a view to understanding how policies should be designed to jointly foster knowledge accumulation, its diffusion and growth.
  • A separate section is devoted to defining some of the most urgent knowledge gaps that need to be addressed by future research.

Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific


Contents:

  • Introduction
  • The Theoretical Platform
  • The Empirical Evidence
  • Policy Implications
  • Knowledge Gaps in the Current State-of-the-Art Research
  • Conclusions
  • References


Readership: Graduate and postgraduate, microeconomists, and policy makers.

96pp Pub. date: Apr 2008
ISBN 978-1-60198-124-0(pbk)
1-60198-124-4(pbk)
US$75 / £60


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Updated on 12 May 2008