The development of urban digital platforms has changed its entrepreneurial environment and affected regional innovation vitality. We calculated the development index of digital platforms of 294 prefecture-level cities in China between 2013 and 2020 using the principal component analysis method....

Interest in promoting entrepreneurship has become a worldwide phenomenon. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that countries vary significantly in their ability to incubate and create new firms. Sources of these differences across countries are not well understood. In this paper, we examine the...