The effect of new business formation on regional development: Empirical evidence, interpretation, and avenues for further research

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This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts, the relative magnitude of direct and indirect effects, and results by type of entry and by industry, as well as differences in the effects that have been found for different types of regions. After interpreting the results based on a common framework, I put forward a number of important questions for further research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2011,006

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; New Firms; Startups ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Subject: entrepreneurship ; new business formation ; employment ; regional development ; Unternehmer ; Unternehmensgründung ; Regionale Entwicklung ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fritsch, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56816
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