Entrepreneurship in a Regional Context: Historical Roots, Recent Developments and Future Challenges

By Michael Fritsch, D. Storey. 2014

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Fritsch M. and Storey D. J. Entrepreneurship in a regional context: historical roots, recent developments and future challenges, Regional Studies. This paper reviews research on regional new business formation published in four special issues of Regional Studies over a period of 30 years. It is observed that over those decades there has been a heightened recognition of the role of both formal institutions and ‘soft’ factors such as social capital and a culture of entrepreneurship. However, the core challenge is to explain why, in several high-income countries, despite these claimed cultural changes, the relative position of regions with regard to new business formation exhibits little or no variation over long periods of time.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “Cultural elements represent the attitudes towards entrepreneurship that can normalize the risks of entrepreneurship or create barriers to leaving stable employment to become an entrepreneur (Fritsch and Storey, 2014).”
Entrepreneurship and economic development in cities (2015, background): “Regional economics and entrepreneurship literature focuses on the dynamics of entrepreneurship (Glaeser et al. 2014a; Fritsch and Wyrwich 2014a) with time as an important dimension of growth (Audretsch and Fritsch 2002).”
National Business Regulations and City Entrepreneurship in Europe: A Multilevel Nested Analysis (2018, unknown): “Although the entrepreneur is embedded in the city context (Autio et al. 2014; Fritsch and Storey, 2014), he or she also operates in the country (Braunerhjelm et al., 2015; Autio et al., 2014; Whitley, 1999).”
The relevance of quantity and quality entrepreneurship for regional performance: the moderating role of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (2018, background): “Various factors have emerged to explain the dissimilar findings in prior research, including differences in development, industry composition, the inclusion of contextual factors and the measurement of entrepreneurial activity (Audretsch, Falck, Feldman, & Heblich, 2012; Fritsch & Storey, 2014).”
Six critical questions about smart specialization (2019, background): “…a better economic structure is most often turned into a delusion if one considers: (1) the vested interest groups that need to be incorporated in this process, and (2) the geographical diversity of entrepreneurship in many countries and regions (Fritsch & Storey, 2014; Stuetzer et al., 2016).”