and the effect this persistence has on development. It is argued that a regional culture of entrepreneurship plays an … important role in explaining persistence of entrepreneurship. We discuss possible explanations for the emergence of a culture of … entrepreneurship, and how it becomes self-perpetuating over time. Finally, we draw policy implications and identify some promising …

institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …

outcomes. In particular, we investigate the detrimental effect of socialist institutions on entrepreneurship. Vietnam offers a … North. To assess the relationship between socialist history and entrepreneurship in this unique setting, we survey more than … that North Vietnamese respondents have lower entrepreneurship intention, are less likely to select into entrepreneurship …

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 …

industries with a long regional tradition and where entrepreneurship played an important role in pre-socialist times had higher …

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions …

institutions. Our study examines the extent to which entrepreneurship at universities is driven by spatial proximity between …

culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …