2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-6951-7
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Entrepreneurship in the Region: Breeding Ground for Nascent Entrepreneurs?

Abstract: This paper employs data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and data from the German Social Insurance Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the SOEP characterizing employees and nascent entrepreneurs is combined with data characterizing the entrepreneurial environment. The principal findings suggest that individuals are embedded in their local entrepreneurial environment which influences an individual especially at the beginning of the decision process about whethe… Show more

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“…With increasing globalisation, it can be argued that the regional level has become more important than nations in promoting and understanding innovation and economic growth (Storper 1997;Porter 2000;Camagni 2002;Scott and Storper 2003;Krugman 2005). Furthermore, entrepreneurship itself has a pronounced regional dimension, with differences in regional start-up rates, as well as differences in the success of start-ups and entrepreneurial attitudes, all indicating the role of the regional environment in fostering entrepreneurship (Armington and Acs 2002;Audretsch and Keilbach 2004a;Bosma and Schutjens 2011;Davidsson and Wiklund 1997;Fritsch and Mueller 2005;Fritsch and Wyrwich 2014;Huggins and Williams 2011;Mueller 2006;Mueller et al 2008). Regions, therefore, can become 'incubators of new ideas' and provide opportunities for entrepreneurship to take place, as well as for discovering valuable new knowledge (Glaeser 2002;Ikeda 2008;Huggins and Williams 2011).…”
Section: Entrepreneurship and Regional Innovationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…With increasing globalisation, it can be argued that the regional level has become more important than nations in promoting and understanding innovation and economic growth (Storper 1997;Porter 2000;Camagni 2002;Scott and Storper 2003;Krugman 2005). Furthermore, entrepreneurship itself has a pronounced regional dimension, with differences in regional start-up rates, as well as differences in the success of start-ups and entrepreneurial attitudes, all indicating the role of the regional environment in fostering entrepreneurship (Armington and Acs 2002;Audretsch and Keilbach 2004a;Bosma and Schutjens 2011;Davidsson and Wiklund 1997;Fritsch and Mueller 2005;Fritsch and Wyrwich 2014;Huggins and Williams 2011;Mueller 2006;Mueller et al 2008). Regions, therefore, can become 'incubators of new ideas' and provide opportunities for entrepreneurship to take place, as well as for discovering valuable new knowledge (Glaeser 2002;Ikeda 2008;Huggins and Williams 2011).…”
Section: Entrepreneurship and Regional Innovationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This suggests that local firms may often be embedded in regional knowledge channels (Breschi and Malerba 2001;Breschi and Lissoni 2009;Krätke 2010), with ready access to local public or private research institutes and universities being facilitated through local knowledge flow routes (Mueller 2006). However, while firms may benefit from local knowledge spillovers as an undirected and spontaneous 'buzz' (Storper and Venables 2004), they may also need to consciously build non-local 'pipelines' to tap into knowledge from outside their region (Bathelt et al 2004).…”
Section: Spatial Dynamicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This suggests that local organisations may often be embedded in regional knowledge channels (Breschi and Malerba, 2001;Breschi and Lissoni, 2009;Krätke, 2010), with ready access to local public or private research institutes and universities being facilitated through local knowledge flow routes (Mueller, 2006). However, while organizations may benefit from local knowledge spillovers as an undirected and spontaneous 'buzz' (Storper and Venables, 2004), they may also need to consciously build non-local 'pipelines' to tap into knowledge from outside their region (Bathelt et al, 2004).…”
Section: Knowledge Spilloversmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Entrepreneurial parents may become role models for those students [Chlosta et al, 2012]. Also, people who come from a business-owning family tend to possess a higher quality of human capital due to the experience, knowledge, and skills necessary for running a business picked up from their parents, among other things, by participating in the management of the family firm [Lentz, Laband, 1990;Mueller, 2006]. Such students often feel more confident moving from entrepreneurial aspirations to action, which ultimately increases the likelihood of their creating a new company [Shirokova et al, 2015b].…”
Section: Coming From a Business-owning Familymentioning
confidence: 99%