In a sample of newly created French firms, the impact of an entrepreneurís education on the firm's survival varies widely depending on his previous labor market situation. While it is strongly positive for the overall population, it is much weaker or insignificant for entrepreneurs who were...

We investigate in this paper local development at the level of the french local entities called EPCI (Etablissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale), which gather different city councils of the French region Basse-Normandie. Sets of socio-economic and fiscal variables allow us to...

[fre] Les fortunes diverses du développement régional Entre 1977 et 1991 , les régions françaises ont connu des fortunes diverses : certaines ont bénéficié d'une croissance de leurs effectifs salariés supérieure à 1 0 %, tandis que d'autres enregistraient une baisse supérieure à 5 %....

In contrast to previous studies on firm survival which tend to focus on features related to the structure of the firms and their area of activity, our aim here is to widen the perspective usually adopted in the field, taking into account a larger and more qualitative set of variables. Among...

This paper examines empirically the link between the post-entry strategies of new entrepreneurs and the duration of the firm. We use a sample of French entrepreneurs that have set up or taken over a firm during the first six months of 1994. For firms that are still alive at least four years...

[eng] The procedure « Enterprises Aid » is granted by the French National Agency of VAluation of Research (ANVAR) and it consists in giving repayable advances based on an innovation programme initiated by a firm. The study of this type of procedure during the 1986-1990 period shows that the...