Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth

By Zoltan J. Acs, C. Armington. 2006

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Greater Access to Capital Is Needed to Unleash the Local Economic Development Potential of Minority-Owned Businesses (2013, background): “Acs and Armington (2006) have shown that young small businesses are vitally important creators of net employment growth in the aggregate, accounting for a larger share of all new job creation than mature firms.”
Supporting rural entrepreneurship: a review of conceptual developments from research to practice (2014, background): “Since the founding and expansion of the United States, entrepreneurship has been fundamentally intertwined with the American identity, attracting enterprising individuals from across the globe who came in search of the American dream.”
Quantifying the relationship between entrepreneurship and competitiveness development stages in Latin America (2011, background): “In this sense, entrepreneurship is the mechanism that turns innovation into economic output ( Acs and Armington 2006; Bosma and Levie 2010).”
Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence (2016, background): “In this sense, some authors recognize the capacities of potential entrepreneurial innovation and growth and their significant contribution to development (Acs and Armington, 2006; Audretsch, 2007; Levie and Autio, 2008; Schramm, 2006).”
Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions (2008, background): “In recent years, economists have come to recognize the input-completing and gap-filling capacities of entrepreneurial activity in innovation and growth, and the significant contribution of innovation and growth to prosperity and economic welfare (Acs and Armington 2006; Schramm 2006; Audretsch 2007)”
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2014, neutral): “While these policies have proliferated recently (Acs et al. 2008; Furth 2012), there is a longer tradition in the United States, dating back to at least 1953, with the creation of the Small Business Administration (SBA), of supporting small businesses by increasing access to credit and opening up op”
Regional systems of entrepreneurship: the nexus of human capital, knowledge and new firm formation (2013, methodology): “Following other empirical studies (Lee et al., 2004; Acs and Armington, 2006), entrepreneurship is measured through the new firm formation rate calculated by dividing the number of total firm births in an MSA by its total labor force.”
Knowledge-Based Regional Economic Development: A Synthetic Review of Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2018, background): “Acs and Armington (2006) confirmed new firm formation as a driving force of the employment growth in U.S. metropolitan regions. New firm formation is also associated with market efficiency, as it drives the economy toward equilibriums through a more efficient use of market resources (Kirzner, 1997).”
Clusters of Entrepreneurship (2009, positive): “This relationship has been taken as evidence for competition spurring technological progress (Glaeser et al., 1992), product cycles where growth is faster at earlier stages (Miracky, 1993), and the importance of entrepreneurship for area success (Acs and Armington, 2006; Glaeser, 2007).”