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Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
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results of the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship. Cluster Analysis serves to compare different regions …
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We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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facts and determinants of new firm survival, a new entrepreneurship database was produced, using the administrative data of … comparability, in line with the "Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme" (OECD/Eurostat 2008 and 2009). We thus obtained a specific … application of a recent internationally comparable methodology for entrepreneurship to provide a multidimensional regional …
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entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …
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The importance of entrepreneurship as a driving force in the economic development has been widely recognised …-regional differences. Given limited city-level data availability, scarce work has been undertaken so far on cross-city entrepreneurship … within the spatially oriented entrepreneurship research. Furthermore, to our best knowledge, no empirical studies exist on …
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-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable ‚jumps‘ in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …
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Start-up activities are considered to be important for regional economic development which varies considerably between regions. As new firm formation and growth is strongly influenced by regional conditions, we analyse the role of regional conditions and their impact on start-up activities. In...
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The location of new establishments is a major issue from the perspective of economic activity and the analysis of the territory. Although both its determinants and consequences are multiple and complex, most studies are focused on single factors or aggregate approaches. This paper presents an...
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regional entrepreneurship index that captures the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the … Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI). Originally the GEDI has been developed to measure national level of … entrepreneurship. The GEDI refers to the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on the twelve pillars of entrepreneurial …
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