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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and … and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2007

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency … over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this high level of persistence observed could be that the region …-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a …

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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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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity: An analysis for German regions

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985502

Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...

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Human capital and regional growth in Switzerland

Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2010

This paper develops a regional production function model for Swiss cantons that incorporates human capital together with spatial effects. Within a spatial panel framework we find that controlling for time effects the spatial spillover effect becomes insignificant. Our results are sensitive with...

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The contribution of new businesses to regional employment: an empirical analysis of the direct employment effect

Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - 2008

We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...

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Investigating the anatomy of the employment effects of new business formation

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009

Recent empirical research has found that the effect of new business formation on employment emerges over a period of about ten years and has identified a 'wave' pattern of these effects. In this study, we decompose the overall contribution of new business formation on employment change into...

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