Entrepreneurship development is increasingly seen as a promising alternative to traditional
economic development, as it unlocks the potential of local citizens to create jobs and serve …

Regional policies across Europe aim at stimulating regional development in non-core
regions through fostering entrepreneurship. However, the policies applied in non-core …

This chapter explains how, regional social legitimacy influences the relationships between
individual entrepreneurial beliefs, intentions and start-up behaviour and how the interaction …

Research on the impact of the regional environment in the very early phase of the business
start-up process is currently limited. This paper contributes to the literature by analysing the …

Abstract It was Maryann Feldman who first characterized entrepreneurship as a
predominantly" regional event." While the spatial, or more specifically, the regional …

We investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new
business formation activity. There is a pronounced variance of start-up rates across the …

Do firm entry and exit improve the competitiveness of regions? If so, is this a universal
mechanism or is it contingent on the type of industry or region in which creative destruction …

This paper investigates to what extent determinants of the rate of independent start-ups and
the rate of new subsidiaries are different. Using a regional database for the Netherlands …

Huggins R. and Thompson P. Culture and place-based development: a socio-economic
analysis, Regional Studies. Cultural factors are often absent from analyses of economic …

This paper focuses on the phase before a firm is founded. Based upon cross‐sectional data
from the German section of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the specific aims of the …