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...

We investigate how institutional change—the transition from a socialist system to a western type market economy—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because of the rapid change of the institutional framework...

"Start-ups of new businesses can influence employment in different ways. The indirect effects, particularly improvements of competitiveness that may result from the entry of new competitors, are often more important than the employment in the new businesses. Recent empirical studies have shown...

F<sc>ritsch</sc> M. and W<sc>yrwich</sc> M. The long persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship: Germany, 1925-2005, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper investigates the persistent levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The...

K<sc>auffeld</sc>-M<sc>onz</sc> M. and F<sc>ritsch</sc> M. Who are the knowledge brokers in regional systems of innovation? A multi-actor network analysis, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. This empirical analysis of eighteen German regional...

F<sc>ritsch</sc> M. and S<sc>torey</sc> D. J. Entrepreneurship in a regional context: historical roots, recent developments and future challenges, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper reviews research on regional new business formation published in four special issues of <italic>Regional Studies</italic> over a period of 30 years. It is...

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act...

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns...

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns...

We investigate the personal- and regional-level determinants of entrepreneurial activities in East Germany and Russia in the process of transition to a market-type economy. In this comparison entrepreneurship in West Germany is used as a benchmark. Whereas East Germany has experienced?after 40...