Entrepreneurs and cities: Complexity, thickness and balance

Helsley, Robert W.; Strange, William C.

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.04.001

Cited by 36 publications

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“…There are also reasons to expect this effect to differ across regions. Helsley and Strange (2011) for example show that urbanized cultures are often more conducive to growth-oriented entrepreneurship. When looking at regional performance in general, Eriksson et al (2013) have distinguished between regions with a "business climate" and regions with a "people climate," finding that both matter for regional performance, but through different channels.…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Institutions and Regional Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for the existence of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a regional cross-section growth regression approach

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In this paper, we propose a method by which the entrepreneurial ecosystem, if present, reveals itself in the data. We first follow the literature and define the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a multidimensional set of interacting factors that moderate the effect of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth. The quality of such an ecosystem, by its multidimensionality, is impossible to measure directly. But so defined, we argue that variation in entrepreneurial ecosystem quality should result in variation in the estimated marginal effect of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth. Testing for such variation is possible using a combination of a multilevel growth regression and latent class analysis. We motivate and validate our approach in simulated data before illustrating its applicability in a data set covering 107 European NUTS1-2 regions across 16 EU member states. For this dataset, we cannot reject the hypothesis of a homogeneous contribution of entrepreneurship to regional growth. That is, in this dataset, we find

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Section: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Institutions and Regional Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for the existence of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a regional cross-section growth regression approach

et al. 2017

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“…While this implies that there will be a positive supply of entrepreneurship even if no profits can be made, it does not change the central prediction that entrepreneurs should be generalists and employees should be specialists. In an application of the Lazear model to local labor markets, Helsley/Strange (2011) point out that entrepreneurs need to be generalists to a lesser degree and may still be able to manage successfully if they substitute local market thickness in large cities for a balance of skills.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear’s theory of entrepreneurship with German data

Lechmann

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2012

Small Bus Econ

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“…In this case, Jacobs and urbanization economies are absent (ρ ¼ 1 and ν ¼ 0) and there are no exogenous 28 See Helsley and Strange (2011) for recent microeconomic foundations to Jacobs externalities…”

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confidence: 99%