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Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship across regions : makes being a new industry a difference?
Wyrwich, Michael - 2011
This paper investigates regional sources of entrepreneurial opportunities of knowledge-intensive start-up activity. Thereby it is investigated whether it makes a difference if the knowledge-intensive sector is a newly emerging industry compared to the case where its location across space could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527207
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Regional trajectories of entrepreneurship : the effect of socialism and transition
Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative … analysis of East and West Germany assesses how these shocks affected the level of entrepreneurship at the regional level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224838
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The deep historical roots of industrial culture and regional entrepreneurship : a case study of two regions
Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022
special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation … that results in a persistent culture of innovative entrepreneurship. In Mecklenburg, such a culture did never emerge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471888
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Ready, set, go! : why are some regions entrepreneurial jump-starters?
Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
determine start-up activity. Not much is known about what drives entrepreneurship in unstable environments characterized by … talent into productive entrepreneurship is higher in areas abundantly endowed with individuals who have a relatively high … that pre- dates socialism. How institutional context affects entrepreneurship over the course of transition is reflected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189319
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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development : evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342537
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Regional entrepreneurial heritage in a socialist and a post-socialist economy
Wyrwich, Michael - 2010
industries with a long regional tradition and where entrepreneurship played an important role in pre-socialist times had higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172843
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One transition story does not fit them all : initial regional conditions and new business formation after socialism
Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
We investigate the reasons for the pronounced regional differences of new business formation after the transformation from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions that had a well-qualified workforce and a relatively high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291790
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The entrepreneurial league table of German regions 1895 and 2019
Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2024
We describe and analyze the long-term development of self-employment in German regions between 1895 and 2019. Based on rankings ("league tables") for the two years we identify those regions where the relative level of self-employment significantly increased ('leapfroggers'), and those where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467308
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How does regional entrepreneurship transfer over time? : the role of household size and economic success
Wyrwich, Michael; Fritsch, Michael - 2023
Mounting empirical evidence shows that regional differences of entrepreneurship are persistent over long periods of … and to what extent the economic success in of regional entrepreneurship stimulates a collective memory of historical … entrepreneurship that spurs self-employment in later periods. The analysis of entrepreneurship in German regions over a period of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316491
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Historical shocks and persistence of economic activity : evidence from a unique natural experiment
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael; … - 2016
This paper investigates the persistence of entrepreneurship in the region of Kaliningrad between 1925 and 2010. During … suggests that persistence of entrepreneurship is higher in regions with a history of successful entrepreneurship. That is, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455999