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Here Be Startups : Exploring London's 'Tech City' Digital Cluster

Nathan, Max - 2017

The digital industries cluster known as Silicon Roundabout has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Rebranded Tech City, it is the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policy makers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such cluster...

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The relationship between firm births and job creation

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...

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Startup stations : the impact of rail access on entrepreneurship (self-employment) in England and Wales

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Szumilo, Nikodem; Vernet, Antoine - 2024

We study the impact of improved rail access on entrepreneurship rates in England and Wales. We use data from the Census … support local entrepreneurship and economic activity, contributing to regional development and reducing economic inequality. …

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Gaining and Losing EU Objective 1 Funds : Regional Development in Britain and the Prospect of Brexit

Di Cataldo, Marco - 2016

Leaving the European Union will entail for UK regions losing access to the EU Cohesion Policy. Have EU funds been effective in the country, and what may be the consequences of an interruption of EU financial support to the UK's poorer regions? This paper studies the impact of ‘Objective 1'...

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The regional effects of professional sports franchises : causal evidence from four European football leagues

Brachert, Matthias - 2018

We use the locational pattern of clubs in four major professional football leagues in Europe to test the causal effect of changes in premier league membership on regional employment and output growth at the NUTS 3 level. We rely on the relegation mode of the classical round-robin tournament in...

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Market concentration, market dynamism and business survival

Burke, Andrew (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2005

The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our...

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance : findings from english firms and cities

Nathan, Max - 2013

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

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Measures implemented by local authorities, particularly in the sphere of spatial policy, and its impact on setting up and developing companies : opinions comparison

Rogalska, Izabela; Marks-Bielska, Renata - In: Folia oeconomica Stetinensia : FOS 20 (2020) 1, pp. 302-318

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Human Capital, Graduate Migration and Innovation in British Regions

Faggian, Alessandra - 2010

equation model to investigate the interrelationships between the interregional flows of human capital, and the innovation … interregional human-capital employment-migration flows of recent university graduates and the innovation performance of regions … little or no support for the argument that the presence of local universities or small firms promotes regional innovation …

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Survival of New Technology Based Firms in the UK and Germany

Cowling, Marc; Fryges, Helmut; Licht, Georg; Murray, … - 2013

Thanks to the efforts of researchers including McDougall and Oviatt (1994), Autio, Sapienza and Almeida (2000), Zahra, Ireland and Hitt (2000), Yli-Renko, Autio and Tontti (2002), B¿rgel, Fier, Licht and Murray (2004) and Sapienza, Autio, George and Zahra (2006), a set of more challenging...

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