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National systems of innovation
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In this paper, the authors draw on the NSI framework, sets it in a larger context, examines the logic of the approach and introduces the special issue by summarizing the papers presented at the conference and selected for this special issue.Abstract:
The perhaps broadest approach to economic performance at the level of a country is the concept of national systems of innovation. Despite the emergence of a compelling literature identifying the persistence of innovative activities and country specific institutional effects, evidence on the nature of national systems of innovation is still missing and a number of crucial questions and answers remain unanswered. To shed light on these issues, as of leading scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation was assembled from around the world for a conference on “National Systems of Entrepreneurship and Innovation” at the ZEW Mannheim in November 2014. This article draws on the NSI framework, sets it in a larger context, examines the logic of the approach and introduces the special issue by summarizing the papers presented at the conference and selected for this special issue.read more
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Entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and economic growth: an ecosystem perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the relationship between economic growth, factor inputs, institutions, and entrepreneurship and investigate whether entrepreneurship and institutions, in combination in an ecosystem, can be viewed as a "missing link" in an aggregate production function analysis of cross-country differences in economic growth.
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Entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and economic growth: an ecosystem perspective
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The governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems
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National Systems of Entrepreneurship
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