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The geography and the effect of creative people in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2007

This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...

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Creative class and regional growth: empirical evidence from eight European countries

Boschma, Ron A.; Fritsch, Michael - 2007

We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...

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Exploration and exploitation: the role of entrepreneurship and R&D in the process of innovation

Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - 2007

stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R&D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …

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The contribution of new businesses to regional employment: an empirical analysis of the direct employment effect

Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - 2008

We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...

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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009

We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...

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The process of creative construction: knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and economic growth

Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David B.; Sarkar, MB - 2008

mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledge investments by existing organizations, when … research in entrepreneurship, strategy and economic growth. …

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Building winners? An empirical evaluation of public business assistance in the founding process

Kösters, Sarah; Obschonka, Martin - 2010

This paper investigates economic and subjective effects of public business assistance delivered to nascent entrepreneurs in Germany. Employing cluster analysis, we explore the actual scope and intensity of business assistance used. Then we analyze predictors of take-up and perceived usefulness...

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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …

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Foundations of high impact entrepreneurship

Ács, Zoltán J. - 2008

This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …

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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Hart, David M.; Ács, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009

In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally …

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