Survey. In the DRC, we find a positive relationship between zero-sum thinking and the presence of demotivating beliefs, such …

-documented relationships between economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Yet despite good intentions, many of these … launch sustained successful efforts to promote entrepreneurship over sustained periods. I highlight several critical …

This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation/entrepreneurship … and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more entrepreneurship and hard work. First, new domestic private firms …

discouraged entrepreneurship and family ownership of businesses in favor of institutional ownership. Credit market regulations …

. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong, positive association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita … growth. The data do not, however, confidently support the conclusions that SMEs exert a causal impact on growth. Furthermore …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …