Measuring Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Eco-Innovation: A Methodological Proposal for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship , innovation , and corruption ☆

Available online xxxx Efforts to control corruption increase levels of trust in the ability of the state and market institutions to reliably and impartially enforce law and the rules of trade. Such trust facilitates the development of arms-length trade and the coordination of complex economic activities. We posit that better control of corruption will also be associated with rising levels of in...

Technological Innovation , Entrepreneurship and Development

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a...

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and again...

Measuring Historical Entrepreneurship

This paper illustrates how theory and evidence have been, and may be, quantitatively linked in the historical study of entrepreneurship, thereby allowing judgements about entrepreneurship’s causes and effects with increasing precision. First is considered the implications of identifying entrepreneurs with business founders, and the corresponding measure of entrepreneurship, the number of new fi...