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Exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities: the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth

Mueller, Pamela - 2005

entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for knowledge flows and economic growth. The empirical results indicate that an increase in … innovative start-up activity is more effective than an increase in general entrepreneurship for economic growth. …

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Direct and indirect effects of new business formation on regional employment

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela; Weyh, Antje - 2004

We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The main effects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due to job creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part of the debate about...

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Regional growth regimes revisited - the case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004

characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …

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The persistence of regional new business formation-activity over time: assessing the potential of policy promotion programs

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2005

entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition … Innovationsaktivitäten und von Entrepreneurship stellen geeignete Ansatzpunkte für eine Politik dar, die auf eine Steigerung der …

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The effect of new firm formation on regional development over time

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004

In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...

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Is venture capital a regional business? The role of syndication

Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - 2006

We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany in the year 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the...

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