The main objective of the thesis is to contribute to the field of entrepreneurship in the areas of new firm formation … entrepreneurship is a source of regional economic development. New firms have a long term employment effects and new firms serve as a …

: latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the probability of a declared preference for self … perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship equation. …

We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …