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The Regional dimension of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is involved in the territory development by contributing to the renewal of productive system and promoting the economic growth. It is well known that national context (laws, regulations, taxes, administration, etc., determined by national governments) matters for entrepreneurship and will influence entrepreneurial behaviors. Despite globalization and global sourcing, entrepreneurship has a pronounced regional dimension, and several streams of literature stress the importance of regional level and focus on the link between new-firm start-up activity and region-specific characteristics and attributes (Fritsch and Schmude 2006) – with the region typically being a subnational territory. Differences between regions in newly founded businesses’ rates and success, in entrepreneurial attitudes, indicate a distinct importance of space and the local environment for entrepreneurship, and such...
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Picard, F. (2013). Territory and Entrepreneurship. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_249
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