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Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship

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Pages 735-756 | Received 16 Jul 2019, Published online: 04 Jan 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Who drives regional economic development in entrepreneurial ecosystems of different types? Using longitudinal data on 267 NUTS-3 European regions during the period 2008–16, we apply the entrepreneurial ecosystem theoretical framework to study how entrepreneurial ecosystem type moderates the relationship between a variety of entrepreneurship and regional economic development. It is found that regional economic development proxied by gross value added per resident responds differently to solo self-employment, job creators and new-firm birth rates as well as changes in a share of productive high-growth entrepreneurship across different entrepreneurial ecosystems. The findings have implications for regional and national policy-makers and scholars who study the geography of entrepreneurship.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. One limitation highlighted by readers is that most Bohemians are self-employed and therefore the method will include the interaction of solo self-employment rates in a region with a proxy for a high concentration of creative industries. This is not the case for European cities. The correlation coefficient between the share of solo self-employed and specialized clusters in creative industries in this study is negative (−0.15) and statistically significant.

2. The results are available from the authors upon request.

 

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Funding

This work was supported by the British Academy [grant number IC160084].

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