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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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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. A particularly important determinant of the ?supply of entrepreneurs' are industry linkages within cities or regions. Indeed, studies consistently find that the most powerful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075824
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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
New firm formation is often highly prioritized by local governments, particularly for regions that are declining. Entrepreneurship can play an important role in keeping declining regions vital through job creation. Yet, the way in which new firm formation exerts its influence on employment...
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Starting a rural business in an ageing society, a UK ? NL case study
Delfmann, Heike - European Regional Science Association - 2014
People have various motivations for becoming an entrepreneur. A common assumption is that entrepreneurs in deprived or remote regions are more likely to be motivated by necessity, as employment opportunities are limited and people have little to lose in starting their own business. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076047
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Universities´ 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
This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically … case of Greece. More specifically, we are presenting the current situation in Greek Higher Education, focusing on the New … Educational Law and especially on the under consultation plan ?Athena? of the Ministry of Education, for the restructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740331
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740495
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740532
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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
an orientation of business education. An interesting finding is that both necessity- and opportunity-driven self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075775
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Market Size, Productivity and Entrepreneurship in a Model a'la Melitz
Pokrovsky, Dmitry - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740460
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ENTREPRENEURIAL DYNAMICS AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM THE POST-COMMUNIST WORLD
Korosteleva, Julia; Belitski, Maksim - European Regional Science Association - 2013
analyse the impact of higher education institutions on entrepreneurial dynamics across 98 cities of the Commonwealth of …. The institutional reform of higher education institutions, whose role has been largely overlooked so far in transition … institutional change, higher education institutions have emerged to counterbalance the Soviet legacies to the benefit of …
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