theoretical papers analyse the relationship between economic agglomerations and entrepreneurship. However, only few case studies … information. This paper aims to analyse the influence of business agglomerations, of cluster type, on the entrepreneurship. The …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

Regional clusters and entrepreneurship have become very popular subjects in economics, regional science, and economic … geography. In the last decade, a large number of scientific papers investigate the empirical evidence for clusters, their … lots of arguments for the hypothesis that existing regional clusters have positive impacts on entrepreneurial attitudes and …

This paper examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of … clusters on entrepreneurship. After controlling for convergence in start-up activity at the region-industry level, industries … convergence and agglomeration on growth in the number of start-up firms as well as in employment in these new firms in a given …