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Abstract
A survey is presented with the goal of synthesizing disparate strands of literature to link entrepreneurship to economic growth. This is done by investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth using elements of various fields: historical views on entrepreneurship, macro-economic growth theory, industrial economics, evolutionary economics, history of economic growth, and the management literature on large corporate organizations. Understanding the role of entrepreneurship in the process of economic growth requires the decomposition of the concept of entrepreneurship. This is accomplished in 3 parts: 1. contributing to the understanding of the dimensions involved, while paying attention to the level of analysis, 2. gaining insight in the causal links between these entrepreneurial dimensions and economic growth, and 3. making suggestions for future empirical research into the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth.