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Testing for clustering of industries : evidence from micro geographic data
Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - 2011
We present a new statistical method that describes the localization patterns of industries in a continuous space. The … proposed method does not divide space into subunits whereby it is not affected by the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP). Our … method fulfils all five criteria for a spatial statistical test of localization proposed by Duranton and Overman (2005) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303835
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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US
van der Zwan, Peter; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325726
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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments
Thurik, A. Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2005
This paper uses 2004 survey data from the 15 old EU member states and the US to explain country differences in latent and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates includes the perception by respondents of administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276807
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Thurik, A. Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2005
Determinants from different streams of literature and spanning different disciplines are used to explain entrepreneurial decisions. A multinomial logit model and survey data from the old 15 EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the US are used to establish the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276808
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - 2008
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it", "taking steps for starting up", "having a young business", "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279550
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - 2006
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from never thought about starting a business to gave up, thinking about it, taking steps for starting up, having a young business, having an older business and no longer being an entrepreneur. By using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318828
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Does venture capital investment really require spatial proximity? : An empirical investigation
Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Schilder, Dirk (contributor) - 2006
We examine the role of spatial proximity for Venture Capital (VC) investments in Germany. The main database is a survey of 85 personal interviews with representatives of different types of financial institutions. The analysis shows that spatial proximity is far less important for VC investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314912
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it" , "taking steps for starting up" , "having a young business" , "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280360
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Entrepreneurial progress : climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the US
Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2010 - Version: March 2010
We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378847
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Start-up complexity and the thickness of regional input markets
Dohse, Dirk; Vaona, Andrea - 2013
Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761961