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Is Venture Capital a regional business? - The role of syndication

Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany between 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the portfolio...

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The Effect of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time: The Case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the lag-structure of this effect and on differences between regions. The different phases of the effects of new business formation on regional development are relatively pronounced...

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The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups

Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...

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Entrepreneurship in the EU: to wish and not to be

Irigoyen, Jesús Maria; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the …

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Entrepreneurship Capital - Determinants and Impact on Regional Economic Performance

Keilbach, Max; Audretsch, David B. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed some-thing of a schizophrenic approach. On … account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has ex-amined the impact of … entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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