Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity: An analysis for German regions

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There is a research gap with respect to understanding the role of entrepreneurial culture and tradition for actual start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for entrepreneurial attitudes (entrepreneurial culture). The results reveal a positive relationship between the historical level of selfemployment in a region and the presence of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure today. Our measure for a regional culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of innovation activity.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2018-007

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; Regional and Urban History: Europe: 1913- ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Thema: entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; new business formation ; personality traits ; culture ; innovation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fritsch, Michael ; Obschonka, Martin ; Wyrwich, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/194231
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ