changing regional characteristics and invariant self-organized response mechanisms. It is supported by empirical examples of … the invariant character of regional development and innovation phenomena, such as long-term population growth, export …

-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector … on regional employment growth in the same sector and on other sectors. We find differences between different types of … start-ups. Knowledge-intensive start-ups seem to have larger effects on the regional economy. In particular, start-ups in …

influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to … their activities in a region. This paper discusses regional entrepreneurship culture as a source of persistent differences … in regional rates of new firm formation, and presents a number of empirical regularities for Sweden to illustrate the …

The relationship between start-up rates and regional economic development has been studied rather extensively in recent … show that there is a regional dimension in persistence. …

firms in different regional milieus. In one model we examine the emergence of new export firms, and in the second model we …

is used to predict export behavior by firms in different regional milieus, and these predictions are compared with … depends on regional characteristics. …