that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …

compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …

start a social enterprise. A key step in gaining further insights into entrepreneurship in these areas is developing a … of regional conditions and developments, which raises the question: what motivates people to start a business in a rural …, ageing region? And how do their motivations fit in the opportunity and necessity dimension? Rural Northumberland (UK) and …

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 …

importance of human capital in triggering serial entrepreneurship, but the kinds of experiences driving direct and latent serial …