Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The social desirability of innovation and entrepreneurship

Invention and social entrepreneurship : social good and social evil

Between useful and useless innovation : the entrepreneurial role

Entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior

Who values the status of the entrepreneur?

Part II. Institutions, innovation and entrepreneurship

Industrial policy, entrepreneurship and growth

The role of patents and licenses in securing external finance for innovation

Entry regulation and firm entry : evidence from German reunification

Financing constraints and entrepreneurship

The new Argonauts and the rise of venture capital in the 'periphery'

Institutional impact on the outreach and profitability of microfinance organizations

Part III. Knowledge, knowledge spillovers, the geography of innovation and entrepreneurship, and growth

Innovation in cities : classical and random urban growth models

Knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation -
revisited : a 20 years' perspective on the field on geography of innovation

Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth : interdependencies, irregularities and regularities

New knowledge : the driving force of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development

Innovation, entrepreneurship and the search for knowledge spillovers

Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth

Part IV. Technology transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship

Startup firms from research in US universities

Universities as research partners : entrepreneurial explorations and exploitations

The rise of university technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship : managerial and policy implications

The innovator's decision : entrepreneurship versus technology transfer

What do scientists think about commercialization activities?

Part V. Firms and innovation

Small firms and innovation

Start-ups in innovative industries : causes and effects

Innovation and the evolution of industries : a tale of incentives, knowledge and needs

How do young innovative companies innovate?

Entrepreneurship, innovation and institutions

The propensity to patent an innovation comparing entrepreneurial with routinized innovators

Business-public research collaborations, entrepreneurship and market orientation : impact on innovativeness in regional clusters

Part VI. The making of the entrepreneur

The genetics of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship education