Changes in Regional Firm Founding Activities

<p>Part of the highly successful <em>Studies in Global Competition</em> series and written by an author based at the Max Planck Institute in Germany – one of the world’s leading centres of evolutionary economics this book looks at the medium to long term development of firm founding activity.</p><p>Developing a framework with which to focus on development and change in regional firm founding activities and split into two sections it:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>explores changes in regional firm founding activities; looking at empirical evidence based on the analysis of fifty German regions</li> <li>examines positive examples or 'role models' that can lead to change in regional start-up activities analyzing its impact both theoretically and empirically in the German town of Jena.</li> </ul><p>Incisive and based on empirical research this book is a key resource for students engaged with change and development in entrepreneurial and regional start-up activities and the environmental impact of start up decisions as well as to policy makers in this area.</p>