We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...

We investigate persistence and change of the levels of regional new business formation in West Germany over a period of thirty years. Our indicator is the position of a region in the national ranking. As indicated by previous studies, we generally find a rather high level of persistence and...

The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the innovative output in each region. The results confirm to...

We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship over time. Our analysis for West German regions shows relatively strong effects for the historical self- employment rate in the non-agricultural sector, particularly in...

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...

There is a research gap with respect to understanding the role of entrepreneurial culture and tradition for actual start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for entrepreneurial attitudes (entrepreneurial culture). The...

Das Statistische Bundesamt weist seit der großen Revision 2005 in den Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) die Entwicklung des realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts und seiner Komponenten auf Vorjahrespreisbasis aus. Durch Verkettung (»Chain-Linking«) werden die zunächst unvergleichbaren...

Das Investitionsklima in Deutschland hat sich abgekühlt. Durch die eingetrübten Absatzaussichten der exportorientierten Industrie wird die Investitionsneigung der betroffenen deutschen Unternehmen negativ beeinflusst und durch die seit Jahresanfang 2001 überwiegend verschlechterten...