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

The effect of entrepreneurship on regional economic growth has been a research agenda for the last two decades …. Entrepreneurship, by creating employment, fostering competitiveness or affecting employment, somehow contributes to economic … development. While entrepreneurship is mostly defined or measured as numbers of self-employed, firm formation, business formation …

Although export-oriented new ventures and the field of international entrepreneurship have received considerable … process (Scott and Stopper, 2003). Regions are influential environments fostering entrepreneurship (Feldman, 2000). This is … especially true for knowledge-based entrepreneurship since proximity to knowledge sources matters in order to discover …