Financial constraints affecting new firms are some of the factors most cited forimpeding entrepreneurial dynamics from flourishing. This article introduces the problem ofregional patterns of financial constraints. The research is conducted with regard to the Frenchregions and the new French...

This paper examines empirically the link between the post-entry strategies of new entrepreneurs and the duration of the firm. We use a sample of French entrepreneurs that have set up or taken over a firm during the first six months of 1994. For firms that are still alive at least four years...

In a sample of newly created French firms, the impact of an entrepreneurís education on the firm's survival varies widely depending on his previous labor market situation. While it is strongly positive for the overall population, it is much weaker or insignificant for entrepreneurs who were...

The decision to start up or to take over an enterprise is induced both by the social and personal situation of the individual and by an environment which is more or less favourable to entrepreneurship. In this environment, we identify several constraints such as financial, technical,...

Cet article propose une étude de la représentativité des communes au sein des différents établissements publics de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) bas-normands. Il utilise pour cela la notion d'indice de pouvoir (au sens de Banzhaf), outil de la théorie des jeux coopératifs qui permet...

The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that factors other than economic ones are at play (Freytag and Thurik, 2010). Cultural factors, as a subset of stable contextual factors, may play a role. In this paper, we give examples of various...

The American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) assembled a group of researchers and policy makers in Germany and the United States to identify research and policy issues posed by the transformation we have come to call the new economy. This paper, which is the product of their...

In this chapter, we propose a primer of the treatment that has received in the economic literature the problematic of entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of entrepreneurs between different types of...

La problématique de la création d'entreprises et ses rapports au territoire intéresse l'économie régionale depuis plus de vingt ans. Un argumentaire explicatif s'est progressivement construit, sollicitant l'apport de l'économie du travail, de l'économie industrielle et de l'économie...

La contribution néo-autrichienne en matièred'entrepreneuriat est insérée dans un cadre d'analyseéconomique dynamique tenant compte du faitrégional. Une introduction à la théorie kirznerienne del'entrepreneuriat est d'abord proposée. Nous traitonsplus spécialement de la notion de...