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 dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as...

An introduction to the concept ofentrepreneurship capital is provided, with an emphasis on its influence onregional economic performance. Entrepreneurship capital is defined as thecapacity of a society to produce new firms. It involves creative individualsneeded to create new firms, a regional...

This Paper links the performance of new technology firms, measured in terms of growth, to geographic location. We introduce a model of firm growth that is specific to characteristics of the location as well as the firm and industry. The model is estimated using a new dataset identifying the...