Despite high estimated gains of a circular economy implementation, progress on the macro,
meso and micro level is sluggish. The purpose of this paper is to examine, from a theoretical …

Despite the popularity of promoting entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) for economic development, there is little scientific basis on which policy makers can …

Concern about environmental problems has led to more attention being paid to the
sustainable development objective. Social entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship in …

A country's institutional framework plays a crucial role in promoting entrepreneurship, which
drives economic growth. Encouraging a minimum level of certainty in ambiguous …

1. Executive summary Despite decades of attention, entrepreneurship scholars are still at
pains to explain precisely why rates of entrepreneurial activity differ across countries …

This study analyzes how the entrepreneurial ecosystem and different types of
entrepreneurship impact regional performance. By analyzing 121 European Union regions …

Current economic downturn encourages extensive research into economic growth engines,
with entrepreneurship as one of the key drivers of growth. Although crucial, determining …

This paper presents an extension to the economic growth model developed by Wong, Ho,
and Autio, to reflect differences in the economic effects of opportunity and necessity-based …

Baumol's [Baumol, WJ, 1990. Entrepreneurship: productive, unproductive and destructive.
Journal of Political Economy 98 (5), 893–921] theory of productive and unproductive …

This survey explores the important connection between institutions and entrepreneurship.
Institutions consist of the formal and informal" rules of the game." Entrepreneurs act within a …