New directions in regional innovation policy: a network model for generating entrepreneurship and economic development

Huggins, Robert; Waite, David; Munday, Max

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1453131

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“…These examples of public financial investments are evidence that policy makers view accelerators as "critical" for fostering indigenous entrepreneurial ecosystems (Hochberg, 2016;Bliemel et al, 2018). Indeed, 1 Accelerators such as Y Combinator has been labelled by some as "perhaps the world's most successful entrepreneurial initiative" (Huggins et al, 2018(Huggins et al, , p. 1302. in certain respects, accelerators appear to be replacing incubators as the latest "fad" within entrepreneurship policy making, particularly in Europe.…”

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Start-up factories, transnational entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems: unpacking the lure of start-up accelerator programmes

Brown

Mawson

Lee

et al. 2019

European Planning Studies

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This paper examines the role of accelerator programmes in promoting transnational entrepreneurship. Designed to assist the growth of start-ups by providing seed finance and structured entrepreneurship support, these programmes are now a prominent feature in many entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world. Drawing on in-depth qualitative evidence focused on one particular programme, the paper shows accelerators play an important intermediary or "brokerage mechanism" providing start-ups with enhanced relational connections and networks. Transnational entrepreneurs attracted to these programmes are highly focused on exploiting these networks whilst maintaining multiple levels of embeddedness in various contexts to maximise the opportunities afforded by accelerators. While many governments are attempting to replicate accelerators programmes within the public sector, the paper concludes that such attempts may prove problematic within weaker entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Start-up factories, transnational entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems: unpacking the lure of start-up accelerator programmes

Brown

Mawson

Lee

et al. 2019

European Planning Studies

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“…In their works, scientists argue that due to the interdependencies between entrepreneurship and sustainable development, a fundamentally new approach to the concept of welfare and the process of sustainable development of national socioeconomic system scan be developed. Scientists are also exploring how the problems of the development of the national economy affect the direction of entrepreneurial activity (Kyrö, 2009;Kuckertz and Wagner, 2010;Schaltegger and Wagner, 2011;Baumgartner et al, 2013;Dewick and Hernandez, 2014;Audretsch et al, 2017;Huggins et al, 2018;Huggins and Thompson 2019).…”

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Methodology for Analyzing the Level of International Entrepreneurship Development

Stopochkin¹,

Sytnik²,

Sytnik³

2020

ERSJ

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Purpose: The purpose of this article is the development of a methodology for analyzing the level of international entrepreneurship development and how to introduce and test this methodology in the non-financial enterprises in Poland.Design/Methodology/Approach: The proposed methodology consists of three stages. At the first stage, the indicators are analyzed, allowing revealing the level of participation of business structures in the national economy system. At the second stage, indicators characterizing the degree of investment activity and the efficiency of business structures functioning, as well as their activity in international markets, are examined. The third stage is devoted to the calculation of the final index of enterprises' participation in international entrepreneurship. The research methodology is based on the use of the following methods: a descriptive statistics method; the method of grouping statistical data; the method of correlation analysis, as well as the regression analysis method. Findings: The proposed methodology makes it possible to comprehensively assess the level of entrepreneurial structures development and the degree of their involvement in international business processes. Practical Implications: The authors' methodology can be the scientific rationale for the process of development of international entrepreneurship. Originality/Value: The methodology proposed the total index of participation of enterprises in international entrepreneurship as a comprehensive indicator of entrepreneurial activity in international markets, based on volumes and efficiency of export operations of business structures.

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“…Successful implementation of innovation brings significant growth in technical and economic efficiency of an enterprise reflected in its productivity [4,[12][13][14], which brings important implications for sustainable long-term growth. This is widely addressed by public policies, the important goal of which is promoting innovation and technological progress to enhance competitiveness and economic growth [15][16][17][18][19]. Given that productivity is considered as one of the most reliable indicators for competitiveness over the long term [20], the question arises whether the support leads to improvements of productivity and thus to fulfilling its purpose.…”

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The Impact of Public Grants on Firm-Level Productivity: Findings from the Czech Food Industry

Dvouletý

Blažková

2019

Sustainability

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Studying the effects of public entrepreneurship and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policies on productivity (i.e., technological efficiency) is important, because the investment policies primarily aim to reduce allocation inefficiencies, enable usage of economies of scale, promote new production methods and technological development. We reviewed the recently published studies, and we show that they often lack fundamental information, such as a sample description and numbers of supported and non-supported firms. Keeping in mind the importance of transparent and rigorous empirical evaluations, we evaluated the effects of investment support from the European Regional and Development Fund (ERDF) on the productivity of the firms operating in the Czech food processing industry two years after the end of the programme. Methodologically, we apply the propensity score matching approach (PSM) combined with a difference in differences approach (DID) based on the firm-level data accounting for 157 firms (i.e., 77.3% of all beneficiaries within the industry) and a control sample of 1224 firms that have not been supported by the intervention. We use three measures of productivity—production efficiency, labour productivity and total factor productivity (TFP). The obtained findings showed that investment subsidy had a positive impact on labour productivity of supported firms. However, the effects on TFP were negative. The impact on production efficiency indicator was proven to be inconclusive. It follows from the results that the productivity of subsidised firms did not improve through an internal increase in efficiency (efficiency of the use of inputs), which indicates no significant technological change. The subsidy decision-making processes should be more careful and transparent to ensure allocating resources only to the projects with growth potential.

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New directions in regional innovation policy: a network model for generating entrepreneurship and economic development

Cited by 41 publications

References 45 publications

Start-up factories, transnational entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems: unpacking the lure of start-up accelerator programmes

Start-up factories, transnational entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems: unpacking the lure of start-up accelerator programmes

Methodology for Analyzing the Level of International Entrepreneurship Development

The Impact of Public Grants on Firm-Level Productivity: Findings from the Czech Food Industry

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