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The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes and empirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples are entrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East and West Germany. The differences of the factors determining the formation of new businesses as well as their development between these two growth regimes are immense and clearly demonstrate the relevance of region specific factors.
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Michael Fritsch: I amindebted to two anonymous referees for helpful comments on an earlier version and to Pamela Mueller and Antje Weyh for energetic support in preparing the data.
Correspondence to Technical University of Freiberg, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Lessingstraße 45, 09596 Freiberg, Germany
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Fritsch, M. Entrepreneurship, entry and performance of new business compared in two growth regimes: East and West Germany. J. Evol. Econ. 14, 525–542 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-004-0230-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-004-0230-z