The localisation of entrepreneurship capital: Evidence from Germany
Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a driving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as the region's entrepreneurship capital. We then investigate the local embeddedness of this variable and which variables have an impact on this variable. Using data for Germany, we find that knowledge-based entrepreneurship capital is driven by local levels of knowledge creation and the acceptance of new ideas, indicating that local knowledge flows play an important role. Low-tech entrepreneurship capital is rather increased by regional unemployment and driven by direct incentives such as subsidies. All three measures are locally clustered, indicating that indeed, entrepreneurship capital is a phenomenon that is driven by local culture, and is therefore locally bounded. Copyright (c) 2007 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2007 RSAI.
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2007
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Authors: | Audretsch, David B. ; Keilbach, Max |
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Papers in Regional Science. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 86.2007, 3, p. 351-365
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Wiley Blackwell |
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