We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative … analysis of East and West Germany assesses how these shocks affected the level of entrepreneurship at the regional level …

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 …

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 …

, persistence in regional determinants of new business formation, distinct regional cultures of entrepreneurship, and path …

determine start-up activity. Not much is known about what drives entrepreneurship in unstable environments characterized by … talent into productive entrepreneurship is higher in areas abundantly endowed with individuals who have a relatively high … that pre- dates socialism. How institutional context affects entrepreneurship over the course of transition is reflected by …

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 …