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 …

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 …

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 …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …