Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development.Especially the continued growth of a minority … of new firms is of major significance to thecommercialization of new ideas and employment growth. These growing new firms …

We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the …

entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …

-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined either with no time-lag or with only a short period lag. We find …, for GB as a whole, no significant relationship between startups and employment creation in the 1980s, but a negative … questions over policies designed to raise rates of new firm formation as a strategy for employment creation, particularly in …

externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on employment growth in Local Market Areas. We find that differences in …

This paper re-examines the link between new firm formation and subsequent employment growth. It investigates whether it … is possible to have the wrong type of entrepreneurship - defined as new firm formation which leads to zero or even … negative subsequent employment growth. It uses a very similar approach to that of Fritsch and Meller (2004), confirming their …