We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership … cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local … absence of a network. Thus, the formation of the network is inefficient as entrepreneurs incur networking costs for purely …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

addition to context-specific contributions, the paper adds originality to the academic entrepreneurship literature by … discussing diversification strategies adopted by academic entrepreneurs, and synergies among academic entrepreneurial activities …

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the … contacts. These results remain robust after applying matching techniques and concentrating on young entrepreneurs. …

firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which … allows lenders to offer different interest rates to network and stand-alone entrepreneurs. We show that a network outcome can … display a smaller number of high-type entrepreneurs even though the network is neither nepotistic nor informationally …

entrepreneurship has been less understood by policy makers. Indeed, so far public policy makers have been concerned with the macro … the role they play as a catalyst of innovation and entrepreneurship. By and large in the research community, the process … innovation and entrepreneurship. Our contributions lie at the macro-meso interface and can shed light on public policy at the …

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …