Entrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of economic evolution. It is also a distinctly spatially uneven process, and … thus an important explanation of the uneven economic development of regions and nations. Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship …; Audretsch et al. 2006; Fritsch 2008). This means that the explanation of regional variations in entrepreneurship has also become …

the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …

, entrepreneurship is a key element of evolutionary economics (Schumpeter1934; Witt 1998; Grebel et al. 2003; Metcalfe 2004; Grebel 2007 … entrepreneurship and in their determinants (Bosmaand Schutjens 2008), and these differences tend to be persistent over time, reflecting …