Zoltan J. Acs

TL;DR: In this paper, a model that introduces a filter between knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter was developed. But the model does not explain how or why spillovers occur.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-level model was proposed to analyze the influence of a country's intellectual property protection regime on the effect of human and financial capital on growth aspirations, and the results suggest that the strength of the intellectual property regime moderates negatively the relationship between an individual's education and entrepreneurial growth aspirations; and it moderates positively the relationship of individual's household income and growth aspirations.

TL;DR: Anselin et al. as discussed by the authors used data for U.S. metropolitan statistical areas to study aggregate local geographic research spillovers generated by universities and found significant sectoral variation with respect to local university effects on innovation.

TL;DR: The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research as discussed by the authors provides an overview of the field of entrepreneurship and its role in the development of new ventures and the emergence of new businesses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore three of the most important reasons for confusion about the opportunity construct: (1) the "objectivity" of opportunity, (2) the perceived importance of one particular individual in determining the direction of the social world and (3) what distinguishes the sub-class of entrepreneurial opportunity from the broader category of opportunity in general.