Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009
IntroductionEntrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of economic evolution. It is also a distinctly spatially … unevenprocess, and thus an important explanation of the uneven economic development of regions andnations. Not surprisingly …) and has been recognized as animportant element in explaining (regional) economic development (Acs and Armington 2004 …