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J. Acs For a complete list of Publications please view the complete CV Books Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, with David B. Audretsch and Robert Strom, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2008. Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Economy with Roger Stough eds., Boston: Springer 2008. Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy: Prelude to a Knowledge Spillover Theory of entrepreneurship, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2008. Obesity, Business and Public Policy, with Alan Lyles eds., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007. Entrepreneurship, Geography and American Economic Growth, with Catherine Armington, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. The Growth of Cities, ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006. Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research, with David B. Audretsch, eds., Boston: Springer, 2005. Paperback edition. Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research, with David B. Audretsch, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy: A Regional Perspective, with de Groot and Nijkamp, eds., Springer, 2002. Innovation and the Growth of Cities, Cheltnam: Edward Elgar, 2002. Also in paperback. Regional Innovation, Knowledge and Global Change, ed., London: Cassell, 2000. Also in paperback. Are Small Firms Important? ed., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Global Economy, with Bernard Yeung, eds., Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1999. Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the Macroeconomy, with B. Carlsson, and C. Karlsson, eds., Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Management and Economics of Organization, with Daniel A. Gerlowski and Felix R. FitzRoy, Prentice Hall, Europe, 1998. Managerial Economics & Organization, with Daniel A. Gerlowski, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. Small Firms and Economic Growth, Two-Volume Set, ed., An Edward Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1996. Small Business in the Modern Economy, with Bo Carlsson and Roy Thurik, Edited by Piet Hein Admiraal, De Vries lectures in Economics, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1996 Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: An East West Perspective, with David B. Audretsch, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprinted as paperback edition 2008. Innovation durch Kleine Unternehmen, with David B. Audretsch, Berlin: Ed Sigma 1992. Innovation and Technological Change: An International Comparison, with David B. Audretsch, eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. The Economics of Small Firms: A European Challenge, with David B. Audretsch, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1990. Innovation and Small Firms, with David B. Audretsch, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. The Changing Structure of the U.S. Economy: Lessons from the U.S. Steel Industry, Foreword by Charles P. Kindleberger, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984. Journal Articles (since 2000) “A Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship,” with D. Audretsch, P. Braunerhhjem and B. Carlsson, Economica (second revision). “Born Local: Two Avenues to Internationalization,” with Siri Terjesen, Journal of International Business Studies (second revision). “Entrepreneurship, Economic Development and Institutions,” with Sameeksha Desai and Jolanda Hessels, Small Business Economics, 2008, 31(3). “What Does ‘Entrepreneurship ‘Data Really Show?” with Sameeksha Desai and Leora F. Klapper, Small Business Economics, 2008, 32(3). “Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness Dynamics in Latin America,” with Jose Ernesto Amoros, Small Business Economics, 2008, 31(3). “Entrepreneurship and Economic Development,” with Nicola Virgil, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2008 (in press). “Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in Rustbelt Economies,” with Larry Plummer and Ryan Sutter, The Annals of Regional Science, 2008, May 20th online. “Creativity and Industrial Cites: A Case Study of Baltimore,” with Monika Megyesi, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2007 (in press). “The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment,” with Siri Terjesen, Colm O’ Gorman, Pickering, David Brookbank, Regional Studies, (under review). “Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship,” Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2008, 4(6), 535-620. “Employment Effects of Business Dynamics: Mice, Gazelles and Elephants,” 2007 with Pamela Mueller, Small Business Economics, 2008, 30(1), 85-100. “Intermediated Mode of Internationalization: New Software Ventures in Ireland and India,” with Siri Terjesen and Colm O’ Gorman, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2008, 20(1), 89-109. “The Determinants of New-firm Survival Across Regional Economies,” with Catherine Armington and Tang Zhang, Annals of Regional Science, 2007, 86(3), 367-391. “What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?,” with Jeffrey S. McMullen and Lawrence Plummer, Small Business Economics, 2007, 28(4), 273-283. “Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy,” with Szerb Laszlo, Small Business Economics, (2007) 28(2-3). 109-122. “Could the Irish Miracle be Repeated in Hungary?” with Szerb Laszlo, Colm O’Gorman and Siri Terjesen, Small Business Economics, 2007, 28(2-3), 123-142. “How is Entrepreneurship Good for Economic Growth,” Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2006, 1(1), 97-107. “Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Change,” with David Audretsch, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2005, 1(5), 1-65. “The Infrastructure of Obesity and the Obesity Epidemic,” with Kenneth Stanton, Journal of Health Economics and Health Policy, 2005, 4(3), 139-146. “Penetrating the ‘Knowledge Filter’ in Regional Economics,” with Larry Plummer, Annals of Regional Science, 2005, 38, 439-456. “Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration and Technological Change,” with Attila Varga, Small Business Economics, 2005, 24(3), 323-334. “The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Implication for Internationalization,” with Pontus Braunerhjelm, Management International Review, 2005, 45(3) 111-144. “Az új vállalkozások gazdaságra gyakorolt hatásainak vizsgálata nemzetközi összehasonlításban,” with A. Varga, S. Laszlo, J. Ulbert, and E. Bodor Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 2004, 51, 679-698. “Entrepreneurship and Economic Development,” with David J. Storey, Regional Studies, 2004,38, 871-877. “Creativity and Entrepreneurship,” with Sam Youl Lee and Richard Florida, Regional Studies, 2004, 38, 879-891. “Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities,” with Catherine Armington, Regional Studies, 2004, 28, 911-927. “The Geographic Diversity of New Firm Formation and Human Capital, with Catherine Armington, Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56(2), 244-278. “Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing,” with Catherine Armington, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2004, 14, 305-329. “Towards New Horizons: The Internationalization of Entrepreneurship,” with Leo Dana and Catherine Jones, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2003, 1(1), 5-12. “Entrepreneurial Capitalism: if America Leads will Europe Follow?” Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2002, 10(1), 113-117. “Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy in American Capitalism,” with Ronnie Phillips, Small Business Economics, in Z. J. Acs and C. Karlsson, Small Business Economic, special issue on Institution, Entrepreneurship and Firm Growth (II): From Sweden to OECD, 2002, 19(3), 189-204. "High-Technology Employment and R&D in Cities: Heterogeneity vs. Specialization," with FitzRoy and Smith, Annals of Regional Science, 2002, 36(3), 373-386. "Patents and Innovation Counts as Measures of Regional Production of New Knowledge," with Luc Anselin and Attila Varga, Research Policy, 2002, 31(7), 1069-1085. Institutions, Entrepreneurship and Firm Growth (I and II): From Sweden to the OECD, with C. Karlsson, Small Business Economics, 2002, 19(2), 63-67 and 19(3), 183-187. “The Determinants of Regional Variation in New Firm Formation,” with Catherine Armington, Regional Studies, 2002, 36(1), 33-45. "Geography, Endogenous Growth and Innovation," with Attila Varga, in Z. J. Acs and A. Varga, eds., International Regional Science Review, special issue on Regional Innovation System 2002, 25(1), 132-148. “Introduction: Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Regional Development,” with de Groot and P. Nijkamp, Papers in Regional Science, 2001, 80(3) 249-254. “Entrepreneurship, Globalization and Public Policy,” with R Morck and B. Yeung, Journal of International Management, 2001, 7, 235-251. “Terbeliseg, Endogen Novekedes es Innovacio,” Ter es Tarsadalom, with Attila Varga, 2000, XIV(4), 23-39. "Two Models of Wealth Distribution," with Leo Paul Dana, Small Business Economics, 2000, 16(1), 63-74. "Geographic and Sectoral Characteristic of Academic Knowledge Externalities," with Luc Anselin and Attila Varga, Papers in Regional Science, 2000, 79(4), 435-444. "Geographic Spillovers and University Research: A Spatial Econometric Approach," with Luc Anselin and Attila Varga, Growth and Change, 2000, 31(4), 501-515. "Entrepreneurial Start-ups and International Business," Wirtschafts Politische Blatter, 2000, 47(3), 269-275. Chapters in Edited Volumes (since 2000)“Measuring the Social Value of Innovation: The cases of Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and Bill Gates, Microsoft,” with Joseph Sany, Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, Volume 19, Measuring the Social Value of Innovation: A Link in the University Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Equation. Elsevier/JAI Press, Gary D. Libecap, Editor (in press). “‘Schumpeterian Capitalism’ in Capitalist Development: Towards a Synthesis of Capitalist Development and the ‘Economy as a whole,’” in Companion on Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Horst Hannusch and Andreas Pyka, eds., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2007, 97-107. “State of Literature on Small to Medium Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-income Communities, in Entrepreneurship in Low-and Moderate-Income Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2006. “Start-ups and Entry Barriers: Small and Medium-sized Firms Population Dynamics,” in Oxford Handbook or Entrepreneurship, Bernard Yeung, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. “New Firm Survival and Human Capital,” with Catherine Armington, in Entrepreneurship and Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, Charlie Karlsson, Borje Johansson and Roger Stough, eds.: New York, Rutledge, 2006, 125-148. “New Firm Formation and the Region: Empirical Evidence from the United States,” in Entrepreneurship, Geography and Innovation, Enrico Santarelli, ed., New York: Springer, 2006, 105-134. “Innovation and the Growth of Cities,” in Urban Dynamics and Growth, CEA vol. 266 Roberto Capello and Peter Nycamp, eds., 2004, 635-655. “New firm Survival and Human Capital,” with Catherine Armington, Entrepreneurship, Spatial Industrial Clusters and Inter-firm Networks, University of Trollhattan/Uddevalla, 2003, 51-70. “Innovation and Technological Change,” with David B. Audretsch in Acs and Audretsch, eds., Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, 55-79. “What is the Value of Entrepreneurial Start-ups to an Economy,” in A. Varga and L. Szerb, eds., Innovation Entrepreneurship, Regions and Economic Development: International experiences and Hungarian Challenges, University of Pecs, Hungary, 2002, 81-106. “High Technology Employment and Knowledge Spillovers,” with FitzRoy and Smith in Acs, de Groot and Nijkamp, eds., The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy: A Regional Perspective, Springer, 147-164, 2002. “Endogenous Technological Change, Entrepreneurship and Regional Growth,” in Manfred Fisher, ed, Knowledge, Complexity and Innovation Systems, Munich: Springer, 2000, 228-247. "The Historical Role of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Sector in Developed and Developing Capitalist States," in B. Dallage and R. McIntyre, eds., Great Hopes and Mixed Achievements: SMEs in Transitional Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press and UNU/WIDER 2001. Book Reviews (since 2000) “30 Years of Catching up with the West,” by Peter J. Biegelbaure, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001, 27(4), 521-523. “Invention and the Rise of Technocapitalism,” Luis Suares-Villa, Papers in Regional Science, 2001, 80(4), 515-517. “Small Firms, Large Concerns,” by Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawoi, History .net Book Review. “Small Business Enterprise: An Economic Analysis,” by Gavin C. Reid, Journal of Economic Literature, 1994, 1920-1922. “The Market and the State,” by David B. Audretsch, Eastern Economic Journal, XVII, No.2, 1991, 253-257. “Employers Large and Small,” by Charles Brown, Hamilton, and James Medoff, Southern Economic Journal, 57, March, 1991, 276-277. “Free Market Conservatism,” edited by Edward Nell, Allen and Unwin, 1984, Eastern Economic Journal, XI, No. 3, 1985, 177-179. Cites Others (since 2000) Global entrepreneurship monitor: National Entrepreneurship Assessment: United States of American: 2004-2005 Executive Report, 2006,with Erlend Bullvaag, I. Elaine Allen, William D. Bygrave and Stephen Spinelli, Jr., Babson College, Wellesley, Ma. Seeding the Vision: Creative Baltimore, 2006, with Monika Megyesi, Jacob France Institute, University of Baltimore. GEM : Vállalkozások Magyarországon 2005 / Ács J. Zoltán, Szerb László, Varga Attila, Ulbert József. - Pécs : PTE, 2005. - 140 p. “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: 2004 Executive Report,” with Pia Arenius, Michael Hay and Maria Minniti, London Business School, 2005. “Entrepreneurship in Rural America: The Big Picture,” in Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, The Center for the Study of Rural America, Main Streets of Tomorrow: Growing and Financing Rural Entrepreneurs, 2003, 31-30. “Entrepreneurial Activity and Economic Growth,” with Catherine Armington, in William D. Bygrave ed., Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2002, 339-349. “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM 2001 Magyarorszag, Vallalkozasok Magyorszagon globalis osszehasonlitasban,” with Szerb, Varga and Ulbert, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, March 2002. “The Emergence of the Entrepreneurial Society,” with David B. Audretsch, Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research, Stockholm Sweden, www.fsf.se, April 2001. Case Study: Saba, Wang & Associates, Inc., with Anthony Mariano, in Entrepreneurship Proceedings of a Joint United States and European Union Seminar, U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, February, 2000, 99-111. Grants (since 2000) U. S. Small Business Administration, Small Business Research Using Large Databases: Mice, Gazelles, Elephants and Job Creation, 2006-2007, SBAHQ-06-Q-0014, $95,000. Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2005-2007, $100,000. Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneurship as a Field of Study-JEL article, 2006, $38,000. U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Small Business Summit, 2005-2006, SBAHQ-Q5-Q0028, $59,000. U. S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Small Business Research Using Large Databases: Entrepreneurship, Geography and Economic Growth, 2003-2004, SBAHQO3M0534, $62,710. Entrepreneurship and Society, Funding for two projects through the SNS-Center for Business and Policy Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002-2005, $75,000. Hungarian Ministry of Industry, Funding for GEMS Hungary, University of Pecs, 2001 and for 2005, $92,000. National Science Foundation, Economics Program, “The Regional Differences in Firm Entry in the Service Sector,” 2000-2001, Grant # SES – 0080316, $106,670. Kauffman Foundation, “U. S. Geographical Diversity in Business Entry and Turnover,” 2000, $58,600. Current Working Research Papers Good Neighbors or Bad? A Time-Space Model of the Effects of entrepreneurial entry on the profits of Post-IPO Firms, with Lawrence Al Plummer and Elaine Mosakowski, March 2008. Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, with Mark Sanders, George Mason University and Max Planck Institute of Economics, March 2008. A Complex Entrepreneurship Context Index, with Laszlo Szerb, George Mason University. Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy with Sameeksha Desai, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2007. A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship, with Sameeksha Desai, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2007. Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Assessment with D. Audretsch, P. Braunerhhjem and B. Carlsson, Center for Economic Policy Research, London, UK, December No. 5409, 2005. The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship with D. Audretsch, P. Braunerhhjem and B. Carlsson, Stockholm Sweden, 2005. The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship and Endogenous Growth, with D. Audretsch, P. Braunerhhjem and B. Carlsson, Center for Economic Policy Research, London, UK, December No. 4783, 2004. Gross Job Flows in the U.S. Economy, with Catherine Armington and Alicia Robb, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census, January CES 99-1. Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) Documentation, including Strengths and Weaknesses, with Catherine Armington, Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census, September CES 98-9. Testimony March 1986 Testimony before Illinois Energy Resource Commission for Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies: Expert Witness. Professional Activities (since 2000) February 2008 Invited Paper, Measuring the Social Value of Innovation, University of Arizona. January 2008 Invited Paper, Regional Endogenous Development, Brisbane Australia. October 2007 Organizer, Third GEM Research Conference, Washington D.C. June 2007 Presented Paper, Babson Conference, Madrid, Spain. May, 2007 Invited Speaker, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. April 2007 Invited Speaker, SME and Entrepreneurship Workshop, Cairo, Egypt. April, 2007 Invited Speaker, Kiel Institute, Kiel, Germany. January, 2007 Keynote Speaker, AGSEE Conference, Brisbane, Australia. May 2005 Organizer, Second GEM Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary. June 2006 Organizer, Summer Institute and Residence Week on Entrepreneurship Research, Max-Plack Institute for Research into Economic Systems. June 2005 Organizer, Summer Institute and Residence Week on Entrepreneurship Research, Max-Plack Institute for Research into Economic Systems. March 2004 Organizer, Conference on Entrepreneurship and Opportunity, Max Planck Institute, Jena Germany. June 2004 Research Director, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). March 2003 Editor of Special Issue, Regional Studies, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. June 2002 Editor of Special Issue, Small Business Economics, Institutions, Entrepreneurship and Firm Growth. January 2002 Session Organizer: Firm Size and Firm Growth Revisited, ASSA, Atlanta, Georgia. March 2001 Member Technical Advisory Board, Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor. March 2000 Team Member of GEM Hungry. March 2000 Editor of Special Issue, International Regional Science Review, Regional Innovation Systems. January 2000 Conference Organizer, Jonkoping International Business School, Institutions, Entrepreneurship and Firm Growth. |
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