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 …

A large and still growing body of literature suggests that entrepreneurship is of exceptional importance in explaining …

founded firms. This relative lack of studies is intriguing since, for example, the "new economic geography" theory empha …