- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 1
- The Knowledge Spill...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 12. September 2007
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2007-059
- Schlagwort(e)
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Economic Development
Entrepreneurship
Foreign Direct Investment
Ireland
Knowledge Spillovers
Wales
- Zusammenfsg.
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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge-based entrepreneurship, we outline FDI and entrepreneurship policies for Wales and Ireland and key measures of knowledge creation, and evaluate the extent and nature of FDI activity and its relationship with entrepreneurship in general and knowledge-based entrepreneurship in particular. Implications include possible policy directions for countries that are characterized by weak knowledge-creating institutions yet wish to encourage knowledge-based entrepreneurship.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- entrepreneurship
- JEL-Classification for JER
- J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; L26 - Entrepreneurship ; M13 - New Firms; Startups ; O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development