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Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation

The Dynamics of Firms and Industries

  • Bringing together some of the premier researchers in the feilds of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
  • This work will be an invaluable resource for those interested in industrial organization, development economics, and regional studies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship (ISEN, volume 12)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Gibrat’s Law: An Overview of the Empirical Literature

    • Enrico Santarelli, Luuk Klomp, A. Roy Thurik
    Pages 41-73
  3. Entrepreneurship in the Old and New Europe

    • Isabel Grilo, A. Roy Thurik
    Pages 75-103
  4. R&D Intensity and the Relationship between Firm Size and Growth in Germany

    • David B. Audretsch, Julie Ann Elston
    Pages 135-148
  5. Gibrat’s Law in a Medium-Technology Industry: Empirical Evidence for Italy

    • Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli
    Pages 149-164
  6. Entrepreneurship, Industrial Restructuring and Unemployment in Portugal

    • Rui Baptista, André van Stel, A. Roy Thurik
    Pages 223-241
  7. What is the Best Policy for Innovative Entrepreneurship?

    • Roberta Piergiovanni, Enrico Santarelli
    Pages 261-274
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 275-285

About this book

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming that this recently established discipline should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this purpose, the book combines theoretical prescriptions and international empirical evidence. Contributions by some of the best known scholars in the field of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation investigate whether the interrelationships between the forces that affect firm and industry dynamics and ultimately determine economic growth are subject to change across countries and over time. The analysis of different national cases puts forward that the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth via innovation is shaped by the context of country-specific institutions and industries, thereby providing hints for industrial and innovation policy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bologna, Bologna

    Enrico Santarelli

  • Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

    Enrico Santarelli

Bibliographic Information

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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