Narrow search
Showing 1 - 6 of 6
Cover Image
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058696
Cover Image
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555368
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567252
Cover Image
R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning
Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 54-68
This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011046430
Cover Image
Small business innovation: firm level evidence from Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 5, pp. 732-754
This paper examines innovation among very small firms and provides new insights into both internal and external … for the period 2000–2006, the following facts emerge: (i) in contrast to larger firms, innovation in micro firms with 1 … innovation among micro firms compared to other firms, (iii) affiliation to a domestically owned multinational enterprise group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988378
Cover Image
Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988933