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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Starting a rural business in an ageing society, a UK ? NL case study

Delfmann, Heike - European Regional Science Association - 2014

start a social enterprise. A key step in gaining further insights into entrepreneurship in these areas is developing a …

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Longer is not necessarily better - University Career Level and Job Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs in Germany

Hesse, Nora - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Universities are increasingly seen as engines for regional innovation and economic growth. Some famous high-tech regions have developed on the basis of universities, for example Silicon Valley in California, Greater Boston in Massachusetts, or the Research Triangle in North Carolina. In these...

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Evolving localization patterns of company foundations Evidence from the German MST-industry

Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; Wendel, Martin - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We investigate company foundations in the German micro technology industry (MST) by means of a spatial-temporal micro-geographic analysis. Our dataset includes the exact location (latitude, longitude) of all German MST firms, relevant research institutions and MST-patent owners including their...

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Who turns to entrepreneurship later in life? - Push and pull in Finnish rural and urban areas

Tervo, Hannu - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Age is an important factor in entrepreneurship. The paths into entrepreneurship at a later age may be varied. Self … urban areas, although rural areas have strong traditions of entrepreneurship. Seniors with prior experience are more likely … to start a business in urban areas: habitual entrepreneurship is more frequent in urban areas, at least in later life …

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New firm formation and its effect on employment growth in declining regions

Delfmann, Heike; Koster, Sierdjan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

. Entrepreneurship can play an important role in keeping declining regions vital through job creation. Yet, the way in which new firm …

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Entrepreneurial Clusters and the Co-agglomeration of Related Industries: Spinouts in Portuguese Plastics and Molds

Baptista, Rui; Costa, Carla - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The success of ?entrepreneurial clusters' has led policymakers towards extensive efforts to seed local entrepreneurship …. Indeed, studies consistently find that the most powerful predictor of future entrepreneurship for a city or region is the …

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The role of scientific and market knowledge in the inventive process: evidence from a survey of industrial inventors

Scandura, Alessandra - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper investigates the role of external knowledge in the patenting activity of inventors that work inside firms, i.e. industrial inventors. It does so with the aim of showing that inventors who combine the use of different sources of knowledge, i.e. scientific and market sources, display a...

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Los, Bart; Castaldi, Carolina; Frenken, Koen - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new technology. However, we also expect that...

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UniversitiesÂ´ funding in the the current global financial crisis: Threat or opportunity for the implementation of Triple Helix Theory?

Balomenou, Chrysanthi; kolovos, Konstantinos - European Regional Science Association - 2013

their new role in terms of supporting the local entrepreneurship, as well. The used method for analyzing the results is the …

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