Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography

Stam, Erik

doi:10.4337/9781849806497.00014

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“…Additionally, results also provide support for the positive influence of regional demand (Population density) on spin-off activity (Egeln et al, 2004). Spin-offs are more likely to be created in municipalities with higher population density and thus relatively easier access to customers (Buenstorf and Geissler, 2011;Stam, 2010). Thus, Hypothesis 2c is supported.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 61%

“…In fact, the larger the market the bigger its "power" to attract startups (Baptista and Mendonça, 2010). This suggests that urban areas can be particularly favorable locations, given the high population density and thus the relative ease of access to customers (consumer demand) (Buenstorf and Geissler, 2011;Stam, 2010). Urban areas are also more likely to offer the inputs required for the firm's operation: capital, labor, suppliers.…”

Section: Biotechnology Focus)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This happens when the spinoff feels the need to engage in technological cooperation with other knowledge sources, besides the parent organization; and when it needs to access resources that are scarce in that region, such as highly qualified labor or supplier networks (Egeln et al 2004). On the other hand, the spin-off may decide to stay in the region of its parent organization for reasons not related to the parent, as for example the fact that entrepreneurs reside in that region and have built social networks that allow access to resources needed for creating the company (Casper, 2013;Fontes, 2005;Stam, 2010).…”

Section: Biotechnology Focus)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…TTO and incubators (Lockett and Wright, 2005;O´Shea et al, 2005;Powers and McDougall, 2005); (4) the nature and type of technology, namely their pervasiveness, novelty and intellectual property protection (Conceição et al, 2012;Gilsing et al, 2010;Shane, 2001);and (5) the external characteristics, i.e. the regional infrastructures that impact on spin-off activity, such as venture capital availability, knowledge infrastructures and industry structure (Audretsch et al, 2005;Stam, 2010;Woodward et al, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Entry by research-based spin-offs: the determinants of regional variation

Conceição¹,

Fontes²,

Pascoal‐Faria³

2013

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Biotechnology Focus)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Biotechnology Focus)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Entry by research-based spin-offs: the determinants of regional variation

Conceição¹,

Fontes²,

Pascoal‐Faria³

2013

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“…The municipal level is preferred for two reasons. First, as new business creation is often a local phenomenon (Dahl and Sorenson 2012;Sternberg 2011), new businesses are likely to be located in the home region primarily serving local and regional markets and are therefore heavily influenced by local conditions (Bosma et al 2008;Stam 2009). Compared to other countries, the commuting patterns of workers in the Netherlands are relatively short (OECD 2013), and municipalities do indeed play an important role in shaping labour markets, housing and unemployment policies (Knoben et al 2011).…”

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The effect of new business creation on employment growth in regions facing population decline

Delfmann

Koster

2016

Ann Reg Sci

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Particularly in declining regions, new businesses creation is seen as a means to secure (future) employment opportunities. However, the way in which new business creation exerts its influence on employment is not evident. Do start-ups in these areas influencing employment change as they do in growth regions? We disentangle the long-and short-term employment effect of new business creation in municipalities in the Netherlands between 1996 and 2010. We conclude that the regional context matters a great deal for the local employment effect of business creation. Further, it is shown in contexts with modest population decline, new businesses are still an important generator of employment opportunities. JEL Classification

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Entrepreneurship and the emergence of industrial clusters

2014

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Innovation and entrepreneurship are the most important catalysts of dynamism in market economies. While it is known that entrepreneurial activities are locally embedded, mutual effects of entrepreneurs and their local regional environment have not been adequately addressed in the existing literature. In this article, we use agent‐based simulation experiments to investigate the role of entrepreneurship in the emergence of regional industrial clusters. We present fundamental extensions to the Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks model (Ahrweiler et al., Industry and Labor Dynamics: The Agent‐based Computational Economics Approach; World Scientific: Singapore, 2004; pp 284–96) by using a multilevel modeling approach. We analyze the effects of changing entrepreneurial character of regions on the development industrial clusters in two simultaneously simulated regions. We find that an increase in the entrepreneurship of one region has a negative effect on the other region due to competition for factors of production and innovative outputs. The major policy implication of this finding is the limitation it posits on regional innovation and development policies that aspire to support clusters in similar areas of industrial specialization. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 19: 14–29, 2014

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Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography

Cited by 83 publications

References 173 publications

Entry by research-based spin-offs: the determinants of regional variation

Entry by research-based spin-offs: the determinants of regional variation

The effect of new business creation on employment growth in regions facing population decline

Entrepreneurship and the emergence of industrial clusters

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