Previous research on market economies characterized by stable framework conditions
shows that several regional factors determine start-up activity. Not much is known about …

Regions have a distinct entrepreneurial heritage, understood as a historical tradition in
entrepreneurial culture. The persistence of that heritage in the former German Democratic …

The popular business and policy literature abounds in prescriptions for how to grow
entrepreneurial economies, or in more fancy terms 'entrepreneurial ecosystems'(Feld 2012; …

Recent scholarship on metropolitan and regional development has highlighted the
importance of two factors: entrepreneurship and skilled individuals. Using micro‐level …

Why do some regions produce more entrepreneurs than others? An ecological lens
provides insight into this question: The demography of organizations in a region …

Entrepreneurship, with product and process innovation as especially important subsets, is at
the core of the regional development process. But the term “entrepreneurship” can mean …

Studies have generally found that economic factors are able to explain changes in
entrepreneurial activity over time, but are less effective at explaining the persistent …

We investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new
business formation activity. There is a pronounced variance of start-up rates across the …

Spatial variations in entrepreneurial activity have been shown to be a time persistent
phenomenon in many countries. This paper analyses how these spatial variations have …

We investigate variation in entrepreneurial activity across 98 Eastern Neighbourhood cities.
The aim of study is twofold: to bridge the city-level gap in empirical research on …