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Creative class and regional growth: empirical evidence from eight European countries

Boschma, Ron A.; Fritsch, Michael - 2007

We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...

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Ready to leave the ivory tower? Academic scientists' appeal to work in the private sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009

employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …

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The effect of new business formation on regional development: Empirical evidence, interpretation, and avenues for further research

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio …

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The Geography of Creative People in Germany revisited

Fritsch, Michael; Stützer, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This paper investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places...

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Drivers of Self-Employment - A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis for the Case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …

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Surviving Against the Tide: Are New Businesses in Innovative Industries Less Affected by General Economic Trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

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Entrepreneurship in the East German transition process: Lessons for the Korean Peninsula

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2016

This paper summarizes the role of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation process that followed the … policy should have a special focus on entrepreneurship. In particular, it should try to utilize and strengthen the …

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An evaluation of German active labor market policies and its entrepreneurship promotion

Zöllner, Moritz; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2016

) measures in Germany. A particular focus is on programs devoted to foster entrepreneurship which can make important … market prospects of the participants. Evaluations of the entrepreneurship promotion activities show high success rates as … well as high cost efficiency. The bulk share of participants of entrepreneurship measures is still self-employed after …

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The persistence of regional entrepreneurship: Are all types of self-employment equally important?

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015

We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …

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