- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 12
- The Regional Emerge...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 24. September 2018
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2018-015
- Schlagwort(e)
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employment career
Innovative start-ups
universities
- Zusammenfsg.
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This paper reviews the empirical evidence concerning the regional emergence of innovative new businesses. It is argued that analyses using aggregate data that focus on the regional level and do not account for career patterns of innovative founders are of limited value in guiding policy that is aimed at fostering the emergence of innovative new businesses. Progress can be mainly expected from research that investigates the family backgrounds, education, and employment careers of potential founders. Moreover, it would be helpful to develop clearer empirical definitions of what constitutes an innovative new business, and the distinctions between different types of innovative businesses.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; R30 - General