start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for … culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …

data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. -- Entrepreneurship ; regional …

macro-perspective. -- Implicit Institutions ; Entrepreneurship ; Socialism ; Capitalism …

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early … relationship holds irrespective of the level of education. -- Entrepreneurship ; parental role models ; human capital …

The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. -- Entrepreneurship ; self …

the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent … data delivers the innovator network for Thuringia. The second data base contains firm specific information on innovative …

This paper summarizes the role of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation process that followed the … policy should have a special focus on entrepreneurship. In particular, it should try to utilize and strengthen the …

undercounting of small firm patenting, which has been a feature of most of the earlier studies. A data set is used that comprises …

in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In …

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …