inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed … effects. Regional differences in entrepreneurship have also been linked to the availability of role models (Fornahl 2003 …; Sternberg 2009; Malecki 2009). It can be argued that in regions with high rates of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial role models …

themselves as ethnic Finns viewed their self-employment as an individualistic form of entrepreneurship and they focused their …-traditional forms of individualistic entrepreneurship, in order to supplement their otherwise inadequate income derived from community …-based reindeer herding. Lower meat prices prompted greater involvement in individualistic entrepreneurship outside the reindeer …