Historical Roots of Entrepreneurial Culture and Innovation Activity - An Analysis for German Regions

Michael Fritsch (), Michael Wyrwich and Martin Obschonka ()
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Martin Obschonka: Queensland University of Technology Business School Brisbane

No 2018-007, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: There is a research gap with respect to understanding the role of entrepreneurial culture and tradition for actual start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for entrepreneurial attitudes (entrepreneurial culture). The results reveal a positive relationship between the historical level of self-employment in a region and the presence of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure today. Our measure for a regional culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of innovation activity.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; self-employment; new business for mation; personality traits; culture; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 N94 O11 O30 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-25
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-his, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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