The success of 'entrepreneurial clusters' has led policymakers towards extensive efforts to seed local entrepreneurship. A particularly important determinant of the 'supply of entrepreneurs' are industry linkages within cities or regions. Indeed, studies consistently find that the most powerful...

Startup growth requires local resources. Economic geography has emphasized the role of agglomeration in accessing these resources. Sociology and urban planning have instead emphasized the role of social embeddedness. For many startups, this creates a trade-off between their home location, in...

New firm set ups, especially in High Tech industries, can give important impulses for the technological development and the catch up process in the Neuen Bundes1aender. The paper at hand gives an overview about the formation behaviour considering the preconditions of the former German Democratic...