The role of small firms for regional revitalization

Fischer, Manfréd M.; Nijkamp, Peter

doi:10.1007/bf01952841

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“…Fischer & Nijkamp, 1988;Sternberg, 2012). However, recent empirical work has shown that it is not new or small firms per se, but especially a rather narrow group of ambitious entrepreneurs that is important for economic growth (Wong et al, 2005;Stam et al, 2009Stam et al, , 2011.…”

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Regional Policy: A Sympathetic Critique

Stam

2015

European Planning Studies

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Regional policies for entrepreneurship are currently going through a transition from increasing the quantity of entrepreneurship to increasing the quality of entrepreneurship. The next step will be the transition from entrepreneurship policy towards policy for an entrepreneurial economy. The entrepreneurial ecosystem approach has been heralded as a new framework accommodating these transitions. This approach starts with the entrepreneurial actor, but emphasizes the context of productive entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is not only the output of the system, entrepreneurs are important players themselves in creating the ecosystem and keeping it healthy. This research briefing reviews the entrepreneurial ecosystem literature and its shortcomings, and provides a novel synthesis. The entrepreneurial ecosystem approach speaks directly to practitioners, but its causal depth and evidence base is rather limited. This article provides a novel synthesis including a causal scheme of how the framework and systemic conditions of the ecosystem lead to particular entrepreneurial activities as output of the ecosystem and new value creation as outcome of the ecosystem. In addition it provides a framework for analysing the interactions between the elements within the ecosystem. This offers a much more rigorous and relevant starting point for subsequent studies into entrepreneurial ecosystems and the regional policy implications of these.

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Regional Policy: A Sympathetic Critique

Stam

2015

European Planning Studies

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“…Recently, there has been increased interest in small start-up firms both for their potential in generating jobs (BIRCH, 1979;MASON and HARRISON, 1985;STOREY and J O H N S O N , 1987) and for their contribution to current processes of economic restructuring in advanced industrial economies. Several authors have claimed a growing importance for small firms and a tendency to industrial fragmentation in segments of high technology industries within the United States and Western Europe (FISCHER and NIJKAMP, 1988;KEEBLE and KELLY, 1986;OAKEY, 1984). These tendencies are thought to reflect the emergence of various flexible and postFordist manufacturing forms.…”

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New Firm Formation in the Semiconductor Industry: Elements of a Flexible Manufacturing System

Angel

1990

Regional Studies

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“…Luis Suarez-Villa and Manjed M . Fischev smaller-size establishments have been found to be lower-cost independent producers (FISCHER and NIJKAMP, 1988;DOUGHERTY, 1989;BOSWORTH et al, 1990;SUAREZ-VILLA and HAN, 1990b;LOVE-MAN and SENGENBERGER, 1991;PRATTEN, 1991;CARLSSON, 1992;MILLER, 1992). Smaller establishments are also more likely to be independent producers, and their cost effectiveness appears to be greater than those of branch operations.…”

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