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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2007
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency … over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this high level of persistence observed could be that the region …-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340654
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The persistence of regional entrepreneurship: Are all types of self-employment equally important?
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015
We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348204
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and … and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and … and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287256
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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity: An analysis for German regions
Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985502
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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323891
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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014
We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369301
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Human capital and regional growth in Switzerland
Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2010
This paper develops a regional production function model for Swiss cantons that incorporates human capital together with spatial effects. Within a spatial panel framework we find that controlling for time effects the spatial spillover effect becomes insignificant. Our results are sensitive with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294040
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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010
entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332695