Several studies confirm a positive relationship between age and entrepreneurship. This paper analyses if this statement … entrepreneurship this paper further adds to existing literature by separating regions into different categories along the urban …-rural hierarchy. The results confirm the finding that entrepreneurship is a positive function of age. Individuals above 55 and 64 have …

-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable 'jumps' in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …

inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed … effects. Regional differences in entrepreneurship have also been linked to the availability of role models (Fornahl 2003 …; Sternberg 2009; Malecki 2009). It can be argued that in regions with high rates of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial role models …