Home-field advantage: location decisions of Portuguese entrepreneurs

Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, Douglas

doi:10.1016/s0094-1190(02)00006-2

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“…Given our interest in gender balance, we also include the district's female literacy rate, total fertility rate, and sex ratio. These traits are important as entrepreneurs tend to start their businesses in their current local area and are even disproportionately found in their region of birth (e.g., Figueiredo et al 2002, Michelacci and Silva 2007, Dahl and Sorenson 2007. These controls will pick up supply-side effects associated with these factors.…”

Section: District-level Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship in India

Ghani¹,

Kerr

O’Connell

2013

Journal of Economic Geography

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Abstract:We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts that a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater relative female entry rates even after controlling for the focal district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for incumbent conditions in 2000 and 2005. The results highlight that the traits of business owners in incumbent industrial structures influence the types of entrepreneurs supported.

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Section: District-level Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship in India

Ghani¹,

Kerr

O’Connell

2013

Journal of Economic Geography

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“…Access to financial assets is crucial to the creation of spin-offs, particularly the availability of venture capital, due to its greater propensity to finance hog-risk start-ups 5 (Di Gregorio and Shane, 2003;Landry et al, 2006; Powers and E En nt tr ry y b by y r re es se ea ar rc ch h--b ba as se ed d s sp pi in n--o of ff fs s: : t th he e d de et te er rm mi in na an nt ts s o of f r re eg gi io on na al l v va ar ri ia at ti io on n _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ (Armington and Acs, 2002;Figueiredo et al, 2002). In the specific case of knowledgebased firms, access to specialized and qualified labor is indeed an essential resource, so its existence directly influences location decisions (Audretsch et al, 2005;Evila et al, 2011¸ Kim et al, 2012Woodward et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Figueiredo et al (2002) the regional concentration of companies is also explained by the need of start-ups to be located in metropolitan areas and urban centers that are characterized by extensive resources, concentration of higher education institutions, technological research facilities and a wide range of market opportunities. Subsequent studies confirm that this proximity to urban centers is a crucial factor for the science-based firms (Baptista and Mendonça, 2010;van Geenhuizen, 2008;Woodward et al, 2006).…”

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

Conceição¹,

Fontes²,

Pascoal‐Faria³

2013

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“…This latter approach is the one in which we are interested for our analysis. FIGUEIREDO et al (2002), GUIMARÃES et al (2004 and, HOLL (2004a and2004b) and ROSENTHAL and STRANGE (2003 and 2004) are good examples of analyses of the location of new firms, and COUGHLIN and SEGEV (2000), LIST (2001), andWOODWARD (1992) are good examples of analyses of location determinants of multinational firms. We should stress that in most of the references we mention, the empirical analysis has been performed with microdata (new firms locating in different geographical areas).…”

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Industrial Location at the Intra-Metropolitan Level: The Role of Agglomeration Economies

Arauzo‐Carod

Viladecans‐Marsal²

2009

Regional Studies

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ABSTRACT:The objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of agglomeration economies on location decisions taken by new firms inside metropolitan areas. As we assume that these economies differ according to firms' level of technology, our sample comprises new firms from high, intermediate and low technology industries. We are particularly interested in analysing the effects of agglomeration economies that are felt over very short distances (inside the metropolitan areas. We introduce in our estimation the effect of the central city as a determinant for the location of new firms in the rest of the metropolitan area.Keywords: Industrial location, cities, metropolitan areas, agglomeration economies. JEL codes: L60, R12, R30. RESUMEN:El objetivo del trabajo es analizar la influencia de las economías de aglomeración en las decisiones de localización de las nuevas empresas dentro de las áreas metropolitanas. Dado que se asume que estas economías difieren en función del nivel tecnológico de cada empresa, se clasifican las nuevas empresas en tecnología avanzada, intermedia y tradicional. El interés se centra particularmente en analizar los efectos de las economías de aglomeración que tienen lugar en distancias muy cortas (dentro de las áreas metropolitanas). En la estimación se introduce el efecto de la ciudad central del área metropolitana como determinante de la localización de las nuevas empresas en el resto del área metropolitana.

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Home-field advantage: location decisions of Portuguese entrepreneurs

Cited by 304 publications

References 16 publications

Local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship in India

Local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship in India

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

Industrial Location at the Intra-Metropolitan Level: The Role of Agglomeration Economies

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