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Start-up rates, Entrepreneurship Culture and the Business Cycle. Swedish patterns from national and regional data
Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to capture such phenomena, and refers in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611628
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Sources of Persistence in Regional Start-Up Rates - evidence from Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Koster, Sierdjan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
The relationship between start-up rates and regional economic development has been studied rather extensively in recent years. Dynamics in start-up rates have however received considerably less attention. In this paper we analyze the persistence of start-up rates across Swedish regions over a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042549
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We …, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood … urbanization economies and localization economies not only co-exist but also co-depend. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482330
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The Geography of Swedish SMEs’ Investments : Financial Constraints Across the Urban-Rural Hierarchy in a Wealthy Country With Low Regional Disparities
Andersson, Martin; Eklund, Johan; Tsvetkova, Alexandra - 2021
This paper advances our knowledge of the spatial determinants of productivity by empirically demonstrating one such mechanism – clear differences along the urban-rural continuum in the sensitivity of SMEs’ investments to own cash flow. Whereas the literature has established uneven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251895
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The geography of Swedish SMEs’ investments : Financial constraints across the urban-rural hierarchy in a wealthy country with low regional disparities
Andersson, Martin - 2020
This paper advances our knowledge of the spatial determinants of productivity by empirically demonstrating one such mechanism – clear differences along the urban-rural continuum in the sensitivity of SMEs’ investments to own cash flow. Whereas the literature has established uneven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454301
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The Role of Accessibility for the Performance of Regional Innovation Systems
Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The link between proximity and innovation has been dwelled upon extensively in the literature. A regional economic milieu characterized by proximity between relevant actors is maintained to be suitable for establishing and maintaining successful regional innovation system. In this paper it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644942
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Regional Innovation Systems in Small & Medium-Sized Regions A Critical Review & Assessment
Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
Continuous product and process innovations are prerequisites for sustainable competitiveness of both nations and regions. How such innovations are created and how successful innovation processes can be initiated are therefore extremely important questions. In recent years, it has been recognized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644979
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The Productive City Needs both - localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015
This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We …, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood … urbanization economies and localization economies not only co-exist but also co-depend. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400455
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Human capital sorting: The "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions
Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017
Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917031
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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017
-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917043