This paper contributes to empirical research on the role of regional policy for
entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a …

Differences in entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial attitude are substantial and
persistent across nations and regions. However, studies on entrepreneurship that …

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in
entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult …

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

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the 'Jack-of-all-trades' view of entrepreneurship.
Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment …

Empirical studies based on individual data have found an inverse U-shaped relationship
between age and the decision to start a business. Other studies have shown that becoming …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes
to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small …

7. Concluding Remarks While we knew next to nothing about nascent entrepreneurs ten
years ago, thanks to the joint effort of a group of researchers, most of whom are affiliated with …

Abstract Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) are believed to be one of the main
drivers of technological change, innovation, and economic progress. Although firm …

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this
paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant …