Start-up complexity and the thickness of regional input markets

Dirk Dohse and Andrea Vaona

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 3, 424-427

Abstract: Start-ups in different industry groups are classified according to their average complexity. We find that thick regional input markets are conducive to start-up activity in general and complex start-ups in particular, but that some inputs are more important than others.

Keywords: New firm formation; Complexity; Regional analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M13 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.004

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