inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed … effects. Regional differences in entrepreneurship have also been linked to the availability of role models (Fornahl 2003 …; Sternberg 2009; Malecki 2009). It can be argued that in regions with high rates of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial role models …

considerably less favourable to entrepreneurship, compared to Japan. On the other hand, cultural differences between the … Netherlands and Japan explain a substantial part of the difference in entrepreneurship rates between the two countries …