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Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?
Fritsch, Michael - 2007
We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We find an inverse 'u'-shaped relationship between the level of start-up activity and employment change. The main variables that shape the employment effects of new businesses in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728703
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Local rates of new firm formation : an empirical exploration using Swedish data
Andersson, Martin; Lavesson, Niclas; Partridge, Mark D. - 2019
variables to address endogeneity, we find that local growth drives local entrepreneurship exclusively in services industries … started by people, so it is unsurprising that the main factor driving local entrepreneurship is the characteristics of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021959
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Measuring cultural diversity at a regional level
Dohse, Dirk; Gold, Robert - 2013
This paper discusses alternative measures of cultural diversity to be used in subsequent investigations of the impacts of cultural diversity on regional development in Europe. It derives indicators for the measurement of cultural diversity from the literature and describes possible adjustments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430075
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Entrepreneurial spillovers over space and time
Fossen, Frank M.; Martin, Thorsten - 2016
Entrepreneurship is a local and dynamic phenomenon. We jointly investigate spatial spillovers and time persistence of … persistence of start-up activity, especially in the high-tech industry. This indicates that entrepreneurship is deeply rooted in … regions and underlines the importance of local entrepreneurship culture for new business formation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558661
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The geography and the effect of creative people in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2007
This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263781
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An exam of the spatial patterns of innovation in Brazilian industry : an empirical analysis : paper presented at ERSA 2012 52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Associatio...
Araujo, Veneziano de Castro; Garcia, Renato - 2012
The aim of this paper is to exam the spatial patterns of innovative performance in Brazilian industry, taking into account its regional interdependencies, and the impact of the main innovative inputs. There is a huge literature concerning regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508713
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Composition of regional conditions for start-up activityevidence based on Swiss Mobilite Spatiale regions
Becker, Katharina; Kronthaler, Franz; Wagner, Kerstin - 2010
results of the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship. Cluster Analysis serves to compare different regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170056
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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective
Nunes, Alcina; Sarmento, Elsa de Morais - 2010
facts and determinants of new firm survival, a new entrepreneurship database was produced, using the administrative data of … comparability, in line with the "Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme" (OECD/Eurostat 2008 and 2009). We thus obtained a specific … application of a recent internationally comparable methodology for entrepreneurship to provide a multidimensional regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571119
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The Determinants of productivity distribution across European regions
Fiaschi, Davide; Lavezzi, Andrea Mario; Parenti, Angela - 2010 - Preliminary version
This paper proposes a methodology which combines elements of parametric regression analysis with the nonparametric distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608072
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Decomposing a decomposition : within-country differences and the role of structural change in productivity growth
Escobar, Octavio; Mühlen, Henning - 2019
In this article, we investigate the relevance of structural change in country-wide productivity growth considering within-country differences. For this purpose, we propose a two-step decomposition approach that accounts for differences among subnational units. To highlight the relevance of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991749