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The literature describes entrepreneurial process as a multidimensional and complex phenomenon. Most conceptual frameworks advocate that the entrepreneurship is a function of the opportunity and the individual entrepreneur, his or her characteristics and actions. A knowledge-based perspective suggests that entrepreneurship can be thought of as a function of knowledge and attitude. Such perspective proposes that there is one single dominant factor upon which the opportunity, the individual, and the whole entrepreneurial process are based. This factor is knowledge as a property of individuals or organizations which are intelligent agents in their own right, and which are challenged to have a critical attitude in order to execute the entrepreneurial process. Recent works on this research area suggest that there is a positive link between entrepreneurship, regional economic performance, and the creation …