Recent discussions in the Economic Geography literature increasingly focus on creative cities and the importance of creativity for achieving economic growth. Considering the increased attention on urban areas it is not surprising that the regional dimension of entrepreneurship is a subject of...

This study puts forward the relevance of investigating the relation between innovation and firm size, acknowledging differences between process innovation and product innovation. From different strands in economic literature, the relevance of innovation in explaining average firm size has been...

Onderzoek naar de invloed van toe- en uittreding van bedrijven op de productiviteit van sectoren. De uitkomsten wijzen uit dat toe- en uittreding in de diensten de productiviteit en hiermee de economische groei positief beïnvloeden. In de nijverheid lijkt de toe- en uittreding van bedrijven...

New firms stimulate competitiveness via market selection and competitive pressures, by forcing less efficient incumbents to exit or to improve their productivity. This way, both the creation and destruction of firms (turbulence) may improve competitiveness. In this paper the effect of turbulence...

The idea behind the new Dutch Bankruptcy Act is that it should reward risk-taking by entrepreneurs in order to stimulate innovative entrepreneurship. Therefore, the rights of the creditors may need to be adjusted in security at some level. Knowledge on the impact of creditor rights on...

Onderzoek naar de methoden voor de berekening van ontbrekende data. Het onderzoek poogt een antwoord te geven op de vraag hoe schattingen geprepareerd kunnen worden voor ontbrekende data in een datamatrix.

We investigated the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of 'talent', enhance entrepreneurial performance?. We distinguished between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis...

Worldwide, less favourable business cycles caused a 25% decline in start-up entrepreneurship, as revealed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2002, a project in which EIM participated as well. As for The Netherlands, declining entrepreneurship levels were not caused by fading intentions to...

The start-up process is an important source for learning opportunities. The present study investigates different types of entrepreneurial learning in the start-up process. Combining contributions from psychology, sociology, organisational and entrepreneurship literature, an appropriate...

In this paper the authors present the levels of Total early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) across 16 Member States of the European Union participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM - 2004 research 2). They also compare the average TEA rate for these 16 EU-countries...