The spatial distribution of new technology-based firms: Empirical results for West-Germany

Bade, Franz-Josef; Nerlinger, Eric A.

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“…Universities and research facilities are an important source of external knowledge that is not only limited to innovative firms (Meyer-Krahmer and Schmoch, 1998;Bade and Nerlinger, 2000). Universities also play an important role as a breeding ground for future entrepreneurs (academic or scientific spin-offs).…”

Section: Regional Determinants Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Globalisation, entrepreneurship and regional environment

Leitão¹,

Lasch²,

Thurik³

2011

IJESB

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Entrepreneurship has been a strategic driver in facilitating the adjustment to technological change and supporting competitiveness in terms of place. Only two decades ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalisation would destroy the region as a meaningful unit of economic analysis. Yet the obsession of policy-makers around the globe to 'create the next Silicon Valley' revealed the increased importance of geographic proximity and regional agglomerations as well as of the role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity. This article explains the relation between entrepreneurship and space which emerged after the advent of the information and communication technology revolution and the resulting wave of globalisation. But the study of strategic management of regions still needs to address a number of methodological issues. Contrasting results and methodological issues affect entrepreneurship research in this field, many questions by economic actors are unanswered and the valorisation of results for practise remains complex.The 2008 RENT XXII conference held at the University of Beira Interior in Covilhã, Portugal, invited international scholars to discuss on the topic of 'Entrepreneurship as an engine of regional development'. This article opens a special issue based on the best papers presented at the conference, resumes the state of the field and opens directions for future research.

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Section: Regional Determinants Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalisation, entrepreneurship and regional environment

Leitão¹,

Lasch²,

Thurik³

2011

IJESB

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“…Moreover, agglomerated areas are often characterized by a large supply of qualified labor and other inputs, tend to have a rich knowledge base, and there should be more knowledge spillovers available than in rural areas due to a higher number of innovative actors. Also, the share of start-ups in knowledge-intensive industries and in high-tech industries, which can be regarded as being innovative, tends to be relatively high in the agglomerations and comparatively low in rural areas (Audretsch, Keilbach, and Lehmann, 2006, 87-90;Bade and Nerlinger, 2000). 9 This larger share of high-quality entry should also contribute to a high intensity of competition and market selection in agglomerations leading to relatively pronounced employment effects of new business formation processes.…”

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Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?

Fritsch¹,

Schroeter²

2007

SSRN Journal

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“…Separate regressions for the agglomerations and the moderately congested areas with different types of polynomial always resulted in a better fit for the third-order polynomial. (Audretsch et al 2006, 87-90;Bade and Nerlinger 2000). 9 Assuming that knowledge-intensive or innovative start-ups impose a greater challenge on incumbent firms than noninnovative start-ups (Fritsch 2007), the higher share of such new businesses in agglomerations may be responsible for the more pronounced effects of new business formation in these regions (see also Mueller 2006).…”

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“…The conjecture of a relatively highlevel of competition in agglomerations is supported by empirical analyses that find a higher level of startups (Brixy and Niese 2006;Fritsch and Falck 2007) but a lower probability of survival Engel and Metzger 2006;Weyh 2006) in these areas. Another explanation for a stronger effect of new business formation on developments in the agglomerations could be based on the observation that the share of start-ups in knowledge-intensive industries and in high-tech industries tends to be relatively high in the agglomerations and relatively low in rural areas (Audretsch et al 2006, 87-90;Bade and Nerlinger 2000). 9 Assuming that knowledge-intensive or innovative start-ups impose a greater challenge on incumbent firms than noninnovative start-ups (Fritsch 2007), the higher share of such new businesses in agglomerations may be responsible for the more pronounced effects of new business formation in these regions (see also Mueller 2006).…”

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The effect of new business formation on regional development over time: the case of Germany

Fritsch

Mueller²

2007

Small Bus Econ

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We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the lag-structure of this effect and on differences between regions. The different phases of the effects of new business formation on regional development are relatively pronounced in agglomerations as well as in regions with a high-level of labor productivity. In lowproductivity regions, the overall employment effect of new business formation activity might be negative. The interregional differences indicate that regional factors play an important role.Keywords Entrepreneurship Á New business formation Á Regional development Á Germany JEL Classifications M13 Á O1 Á O18 Á R11 Á O12 Á L26 Aims and scopeRecent studies have shown very clearly that the impact of new business formation on regional development is distributed over a longer period of time (Audretsch and Fritsch 2002; Mueller 2004, 2006;van Stel and Storey 2004). Moreover, these studies revealed pronounced differences in the magnitude of the effect across regions. This paper extends our earlier work on the impact of new business formation on regional development in Germany Mueller 2004, 2006) in analyzing regional differences in much more detail. In contrast to our earlier study, we perform the analysis on the level of planning regions instead of districts as spatial units. Planning regions may be better suited as units of analysis because they account for economic interaction between districts. For this reason, the analysis is less likely to be subject to spatial autocorrelation.The following section gives a brief overview of the main evidence found by earlier investigations of the effect of new business formation on economic 123Small Bus Econ (2008) 30:15-29 DOI 10.1007 development in Germany. Section 3 addresses data and measurement issues. The analysis of the short-, medium-, and long-term impact of new business formation on regional employment is reported in Sect. 4. Differences in the effects across regions are investigated in Sect. 5. The final section draws conclusions for policy as well as for further research.2 New business formation and regional development in Germany-an overview of the empirical studiesThe first empirical analyses of the employment effects of new business formation with comprehensive data from the German economy followed a 'job-turnover' approach (Cramer and Koller 1988; Boerie and Cramer 1992, Gerlach andWagner 1993; Koenig and Weißhuhn 1990a, b). A main shortcoming of these analyses is that only the initial employment of the start-ups in their first year is counted as their contribution to employment. The development of start-ups in the following years was assigned to the incumbents. Therefore, these studies do not allow the assessment of the longer-term effects of new businesses on development, which are probably much more important than the initial employment effect around the time of start-up (Fritsch 2007). The analyses of the short-term effect of start-ups indicated that employment gains due...

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The spatial distribution of new technology-based firms: Empirical results for West-Germany

Cited by 75 publications

References 10 publications

Globalisation, entrepreneurship and regional environment

Globalisation, entrepreneurship and regional environment

Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?

The effect of new business formation on regional development over time: the case of Germany

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