Overview
- Places an empirical spotlight on spatial differences in entrepreneurship, culture, and growth
- Combines rigorous economics methodology with important insights from psychology and sociology
- Demonstrates the key role of entrepreneurship towards regional development
Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship (ISEN, volume 40)
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This is a superb book with an original, historical take on entrepreneurship and regional development. It is a landmark study on Germany showing that regional levels of entrepreneurship are persistent and resilient, despite many disruptive shocks.
Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Stavanger University, Norway
This book presents the distilled wisdom of two leading authorities on the link between entrepreneurship and economic prosperity at a regional level. Although its prime empirical focus is on Germany there are clear lessons for scholars and policy-makers in all high-income countries.
David J Storey, University of Sussex, UK
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Keywords
- Persistence of regional entrepreneurship
- Regional entrepreneurial culture
- Histories of regional entrepreneurship
- Persistence in social capital
- Self-employment trajectories
- Regional start-up activities
- Geography of entrepreneurship
- Industry structure, entrepreneurship and culture
- Entrepreneurial culture and innovative start-ups
- Socioeconomic heritage
- Historical social research on entrepreneurship
Table of contents (9 chapters)
Reviews
“Fritsch and Wyrwich have written a book with exemplar empirical studies on the role of entrepreneurship culture in the long-term evolution of regional economies. … This context provides an excellent testing ground for hypotheses about the culture–entrepreneurship–growth nexus. … These books substantially expand our scientific and practical
knowledge about entrepreneurial ecosystems, start-up communities and entrepreneurship cultures. … Good research not only provides answers but also raises new questions. These two books certainly do.” (Erik Stam,Regional Studies, Vol. 57 (4), 2023)“‘Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth: The Role of History and Culture’ takes the reader on an empirical journey exploring how and why cultural factors related to entrepreneurship vary across regions, as well as how these variations impact upon rates of regional economic development. … the concept of ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ has become a fashionable and potentially enduring means of understanding the components in places, especially regions, that impact upon on entrepreneurship.” (Robert Huggins, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 98 (3), June, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michael Wyrwich is Interim Full Professor for Business Dynamics, Innovation, and Economic Changeat the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He serves as member of the editorial board of the academic journal Review of Regional Research and as a member of the editorial review board of Small Business Economics. Michael Wyrwich has received his degrees in economics (Diplom Volkswirt, Ph.D., Habilitation) from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The main fields of his recent research are entrepreneurship. His publications comprise more than 30 articles in scholarly journals and in edited volumes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth
Book Subtitle: The Role of History and Culture
Authors: Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich
Series Title: International Studies in Entrepreneurship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97782-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97781-2Published: 06 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07403-6Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97782-9Published: 25 September 2018
Series ISSN: 1572-1922
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5884
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 144
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic History, Economic Geography, Sociology of Culture, Innovation/Technology Management