The Regional Emergence of Innovative Start-ups: A Research Agenda

Michael Fritsch ()

No 2018-015, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: This paper reviews the empirical evidence concerning the regional emergence of innovative new businesses. It is argued that analyses using aggregate data that focus on the regional level and do not account for career patterns of innovative founders are of limited value in guiding policy that is aimed at fostering the emergence of innovative new businesses. Progress can be mainly expected from research that investigates the family backgrounds, education, and employment careers of potential founders. Moreover, it would be helpful to develop clearer empirical definitions of what constitutes an innovative new business, and the distinctions between different types of innovative businesses.

Keywords: Innovative start-ups; universities; employment career (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L26 O31 R12 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-09-24
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-sbm, nep-tid and nep-ure
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