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"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …
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My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...
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spillovers remains largely unclear. This paper introduces human capital, innovation and several types of entrepreneurship as … of entrepreneurship, discerned at the individual level, as well as human capital and invention through patenting activity … activity and entrepreneurship are all linked to regional performance, more so in regions containing large as well as medium …
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This paper analyses mechanisms of decline and renewal in high-tech regions, illustrated with empirical evidence on the Cambridgeshire high-tech region in the UK. The paper contributes to ecological (‘carrying capacity’) and evolutionary (path dependence) theories of regional...
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In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...
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In this paper we investigate the spatial aspects of the conditions of entrepreneurship on the one hand, and the … consequences of entrepreneurship on the other hand. The consequences are the effects of individual interactions that may lead to … analysis of entrepreneurship and evolving selection environments, and the spatial aspects of these processes and structures. We …
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This paper examines to what extent gazelles are the drivers of the growth of industries and structural change. To this purpose we analyze gazelles over a 12 year period (annually from 1997 until 2008) in the Netherlands, and relate them to the dynamics in employment per industry. We use a panel...
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This paper discusses the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation along a cycle in which exploration … and exploration follow upon each other. We place the roles of entrepreneurship in innovation policy within this cycle of … innovation. Different types of innovation along the cycle of innovation are realized with different forms of entrepreneurship …
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. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …
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