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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship : testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry

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dc.creator van Oort, Frank G.
dc.creator Stam, Erik
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:07:59Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:07:59Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20000
dc.identifier ppn:494675489
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20000
dc.description Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship. Indicators of agglomeration economies are analysed in clearly defined urban regimes on three spatial scales in the Netherlands – national zoning, labour market connectedness, and urban size. This is done in order to uncover their effect on two entrepreneurial phases in the firm life cycle - new firm formation and the growth of incumbent firms in the relatively new ICT industry in the Netherlands. In comparison with new firm formation, the growth of incumbent firms is not so much related to spatial clustering of the ICT industry and other localized sources of knowledge economies associated with urban density. Instead, knowledge as an input for growth of incumbent firms is associated with more endogenous (firm internal) learning aspects, reflected by a significant correlate with R&D-investments. Also the effect of local ICT firm competition differs between the two types of firms: a positive effect on new firm formation, but a negative effect on incumbent firm growth. In general, agglomeration economies have stronger effects on the formation of ICT firms than on the growth of ICT firms.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation Papers on entrepreneurship, growth and public policy 0905
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject M13
dc.subject R12
dc.subject L25
dc.subject D21
dc.subject L86
dc.subject L63
dc.subject O18
dc.subject R30
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject agglomeration economies
dc.subject spatial externalities
dc.subject entrepreneurship
dc.subject location
dc.subject urban regimes
dc.subject ICT industry
dc.subject Agglomerationseffekt
dc.subject Wirtschaftswachstum
dc.subject Innovation
dc.subject Räumliche Innovationsdiffusion
dc.subject Technischer Fortschritt
dc.subject Wissenstransfer
dc.subject Regionale Konzentration
dc.subject Wirtschaftsgeographie
dc.subject Niederlande
dc.title Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship : testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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