Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurial Activity and Economic Growth: A Literature Review -- Chapter 3: A Review of Economic Development Thinking and the Role of Innovative Entrepreneurship: Past, Present, and Future -- Chapter 4: Why Do Some Nations Succeed While Others...

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....