How Can a Cluster Policy Enhance Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the German ‘Bioregio’ Case

Claire Champenois
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Claire Champenois: Audencia Nantes School of Management, PRES LUNAM, 8 route de la Jonelière, 44300 Nantes, France

Environment and Planning C, 2012, vol. 30, issue 5, 796-815

Abstract: I investigate the mechanisms through which a cluster policy can enhance entrepreneurship defined as new venture creation. The paper is based on the study of a cluster policy (‘BioRegio’) that strongly simulated new firm creation in biotechnology in Germany after 1996. The process induced by BioRegio at the territory level is analyzed over a ten-year period (1995–2004). I identify a three-step social mechanism through which a cluster policy can enhance entrepreneurship. The presented results strengthen the literature on cluster policies and clusters on the specif c issue of entrepreneurship: four main contributions are suggested.

Keywords: academic entrepreneurs; BioRegio; biotechnology; regional innovation systems; institutional theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/c1180

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