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Regional competitiveness, university spillovers, and entrepreneurial activity

Audretsch, David; Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 587-601

This study examines the impact of regional competitiveness on the innovative activity of entrepreneurial firms. Based on a unique and hand-collected dataset of publicly listed high-technology start-ups and university regions, this paper tests how regional competitiveness and university...

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Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: an introduction to the special issue

Audretsch, David; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 531-537

still remains to be investigated on the role played by entrepreneurship in transforming local economies. The set of papers … of a bi-directional relationship between entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness, the papers shed some light on the …

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …

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Entrepreneurship and innovation networks

Karlsson, Charlie; Warda, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 393-398

In this paper, we give a general introduction to the notion of entrepreneurship and how it has many complex meanings … regional policy issues. The most apparent concerns conditions conducive for entrepreneurship in the form of new firms and firm …

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

Draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vols. 5A and 5B This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how...

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 498-520

We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with … damped entrepreneurship across several generations. Proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with reduced … entrepreneurship for cities in the 1970s and onward in industries unrelated to mining. We use historical mines as an instrument for our …

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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...

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The Effects of Experience, Ownership, and Knowledge on IPO Survival: Evidence from the Neuer Markt

Audretsch, David; Lehmann, Erik - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2004

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance for young and high-tech firms. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German counterpart of the NASDAQ, our results differ from studies on more traditional firms. Ownership by...

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Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, Governance and Regional Economic Development

Karlsson, Charlie - Institutionen för Industriell Ekonomi, Blekinge … - 2012

entrepreneurship, social capital and governance. We conclude firstly that the relationships between regional entrepreneurship, regional … between regional entrepreneurship, regional social capital, regional governance and regional economic development and some …

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