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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712861
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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies
Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2004
New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271747
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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels : Some US State-Level Empirics
Wiseman, Travis - 2013
Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following …) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of these relationships using US state-level real GDP per capita, the … Economic Freedom of North America index, and the state-level productive and unproductive entrepreneurship scores provided by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093550
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Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and the Size of U.S. Underground Economies
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official … (higher) levels of informal economic activity. Additionally, I aim to connect entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035948
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International Strategies of Business Incubation : The USA, Germany and Russia
Tsaplin, Evgeny - 2018
In this paper we examine strategies of business incubation in the following countries: the USA, Germany and Russia using both a comparative theoretical analysis of different performance criteria of business incubators and interviewing experts who work directly with startup companies. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933617
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271770
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Marshall or Jacobs? : answers to an unsuitable question from an interaction model
Lehmann, Robert; Kluge, Jan - 2012
This paper investigates whether localization economies as brought forward by Marshall (1890) or urbanization economies as mentioned by Jacobs (1970) are more decisive for regional gross value added per capita. Our novel approach is to explicitly allow for interdependencies between these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516048
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Local ability to rewire and socioeconomic performance : evidence from US counties before and after the Great Recession
Partridge, Mark D.; Tsvetkova, Alexandra - 2020
The paper examines the effects of three groups of factors (county economic structure, social/demographic attributes and geography) on employment growth and poverty change in US counties before and after the Great Recession. It finds that the industrial structure that facilitates inter-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227522
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Resilience, skill endowment and diversity : evidence from US metropolitan areas
Fusillo, Fabrizio; Consoli, Davide; Quatraro, Francesco - 2019
By adopting the evolutionary approach to resilience, this paper discusses and empirically investigate the determinants of the ability of region to resist, absorb, and react to recessionary shocks. The recent 2008 Great Recession has extremely affected most of the advanced economies all over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020083
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270564