INTRODUCTION: THE STARTUP PROCESS

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and welfare effects. The papers in this special issue arefrom the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in Washington D. C. in 2007. The introduction has three o...

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Autores principales: ACS,ZOLTAN J, AMORÓS,JOSÉ ERNESTO
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2008
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Sumario:Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and welfare effects. The papers in this special issue arefrom the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in Washington D. C. in 2007. The introduction has three objectives. First, to discuss the importance of the three stages of economic development, the factor-driven stage, the efficiency-driven stage and the innovation-driven stage. Second, to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary ofthe papers.