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dc.contributor.authorCarlsson, Boen
dc.contributor.authorÁcs, Zoltán J.en
dc.contributor.authorAudretsch, David B.en
dc.contributor.authorBraunerhjelm, Pontusen
dc.date.accessioned2007-10-23-
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-27T09:39:26Z-
dc.date.available2009-07-27T09:39:26Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/25629-
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital ge-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not ex-plain how or why spillovers occur, or why large investments in R&D do not al-ways result in economic growth. What is missing is “the knowledge filter” - the distinction between general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting economically re-levant knowledge into economic activity. This paper shows that the unpreceden-ted increase in R&D spending in the United States during and after World War II was converted into economic activity via incumbent firms in the early postwar period and increasingly via new ventures in the last few decades.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aFriedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics |cJenaen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aJena Economic Research Papers |x2007,057en
dc.subject.jelO14en
dc.subject.jelO17en
dc.subject.jelO30en
dc.subject.jelN90en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordknowledgeen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic growthen
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneurshipen
dc.subject.keywordspilloversen
dc.subject.keywordhistoryen
dc.subject.stwWissenstransferen
dc.subject.stwUnternehmeren
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftswachstumen
dc.subject.stwNeue Wachstumstheorieen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleThe knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn547177070en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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