The paper claims that the analysis of the private business sector needs to concentrate on entrepreneurship. Based on …-determine the economic performance of new firms. Entrepreneurship takes the form of institution building by which the high … governance, incentive contracts, local autonomy and networking as the crucial “hybrids†for mobilising investment and limiting …

political and economic entrepreneurship, or, phrased in institutional terms, local business systems emerge from the interplay … between the formal architecture of local autonomy and the informal institution of networking. In a comparative perspective … institutional change, will lead to diversity in outcomes. In a dynamic perspective both market competition and networking will …

The study of the determinants of entrepreneurship at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. The … relative stability of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across coun-tries suggests that other forces such as certain …

While it is generally acknowledged that entrepreneurship as well as export activity may both be important strategies … the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for a sample of 36 countries. An important advantage of using the macro-level is that …-stage ventures to macro-economic out-comes. Our results suggest that export-oriented entrepreneurship is indeed more important for …

survey on Entrepreneurship" consisting of more than 10,000 observations for 25 member states of the European Union, Norway …