Entrepreneurial Activity and Regional Competitiveness: An Introduction to the Special Issue

 2011
Audretsch, D. & Peña, I.
Small Business Economics. Online first

English  // Keywords: Entrepreneurship Regional Competitiveness.

 

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An important goal of this special issue isto gain a better understanding of the linkage between the entrepreneurial activity of a region and its level of competitiveness. Comparative studies across countries abound in the literature, but much still remains to be investigated on the role played by entrepreneurship in transforming local economies. The set of papers included in this special issue aims to fill this conceptual and empirical gap. In general, besides acknowledging the existence of a bi-directional relationship between entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness, the papers shed some light on the endogenous process of wealth creation in local economies.

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