Innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy

Charlie Karlsson (), Urban Gråsjö () and Sofia Wixe

No 385, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: Much of the discussion about globalization has been held at a rather superficial macro-economic level. Discussions about globalization dealing with the meso- and micro-economic level, i.e. the level of regions and companies, have been much less common. Many of the discussions of globalization at the meso- and micro-economic level have also been biased in the sense that they have only given a partial picture. One obvious example is that discus¬sions of the role of innovation and entrepreneur¬ship have tended to use a narrow definition of entrepreneurship equal to the start-up of new companies and as a result ignored the high degree of innovation and entrepreneurship within many incumbent companies. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy.

Keywords: Globalization; innovation; entrepreneurship; urban regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F60 L26 O30 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2014-11-26
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