Innovation, economic growth and the firm is an edited book containing a selection of papers from a Schumpeter conference in 2006. How economic growth is created in a dynamic interplay between firm and industry is the subject matter. Knowledge, innovation and competition are the dynamic forces considered. The different essays in the book are both of theoretical and empirical econometric nature. The book can be said to belong to fields of industrial organization, theory of the firm, and entrepreneurship. The purpose of the book is to study the determinants of economic growth from a firm perspective.