Start-ups and Local Entrepreneurial Social Capital in the Municipalities of Sweden

The paper explores time-persistence in interregional differences of self-employment rates in England and Wales in the 1921-2011 period by using census data. The results suggest a strong path-dependence in entrepreneurship as past self-employment rates have strong bearing on future ones. However, there is also some rank mobility reflected in the upward movements of London boroughs and downward movements of primarily coastal areas. Rank mobility relates to structural changes, changes in human capital, regional age structures and immigration.

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“…7. Westlund et al (2014) use the local share of small businesses to define their business-related entrepreneurship social capital. 8.…”

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confidence: 99%

Persistence and change in interregional differences in entrepreneurship: England and Wales, 1921–2011

Fotopoulos

Storey

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…The CSE-survey represents the best available information that we have at our disposal to explore these issues. 14 It has also been used in a number of recent studies to derive measures of business-related social capital and to examine their effect on the frequency of startups (Westlund et al 2014) and private sector growth (Fölster and Peltzman 2010) in Swedish regions.…”

Section: The Confederation Of Swedish Enterprise (Cse) Conducts An Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Competitiveness Fostered through Local Institutions for Entrepreneurship

Andersson

Henrekson

2015

The Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of national institutional frameworks, in particular in non-federal states, our review shows that there is plenty of room for local initiatives and policies to influence the entrepreneurial climate locally. This pertains to both formal (e.g., taxes, regulations and stringency of enforcement) and informal (e.g., attitudes and social legitimacy) institutions. We further argue that the local institutional environment is essential in any local policy aimed to foster productive (high-impact) entrepreneurship. Favorable local institutions not only increase the odds that a region develops or manage to attract entrepreneurial incumbents, but also the odds that a region reaps the full potential of hosting entrepreneurial and knowledge-intensive activities.

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“…Therefore, entrepreneurship and policies for facilitating entrepreneurship development have started to receive high level of political attention around the world (Barreneche-Garcia 2014; Westlund et al 2014). In response to the institutional and legislative changes, and increased expectations towards universities to contribute to the economic growth, over the last decades, universities worldwide have increased their attention to commercialization of academic knowledge, collaboration with industry, development of incubators, accelerators, science parks etc.…”

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confidence: 99%