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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2007
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency … over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this high level of persistence observed could be that the region …-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a …
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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
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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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010
entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …
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On Creativity: From conceptual ideas towards a systemic understanding
Suwala, Lech - 2017
cultural and creative industries or academic entrepreneurship. Ultimately, a potpourri of manifold spatial metaphors connected …
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Entrepreneurship and firms' mobility
Pablo, Federico; García-Tabuenca, Antonio; Gallo, … - 2012
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 determinants of new business formation in China: Prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015
entrepreneurship. …
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Regional Convergence and R&D Investment: Applied investigation in Portugal
Guerreiro, Gertrudes; Guerreiro, António - 2015
R&D investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of regions and perhaps on regional convergence (or divergence) too. The aim of the paper is to study both the localization of R&D investments and regional income distribution among the NUTs 3 regions of...
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The impact of knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity. New empirical evidence from selected European countries
Puškárová, Paula; Piribauer, Philipp - 2014
This paper aims to identify the contribution of knowledge capital and its determinant - human capital - to total factor productivity differences among regions within a regression framework in general and the impact of their spillovers on regional total factor productivity in particular. The...
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Labor productivity growth in EU28: Spatial panel analysis
Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015
This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory of Fingleton?s model which analyses the spatial process...
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Shedding Light on the Spatial Diffusion of Disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin; Sanders, Mark; … - 2018
Climate research suggests that global warming will lead to more frequent and more extreme natural disasters. Most disasters are local events with effects on local economic activity. Hence, assessing their economic impacts with the help of econometric country-level analysis may lead to biased...
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