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Published in: Small Business Economics 3/2013

01-04-2013

Regional determinants of ICT new firm formation

Authors: Frank Lasch, Frank Robert, Frédéric Le Roy

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Abstract

The role of regional determinants in new entrepreneurs’ location decisions is analyzed in the French information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. As we focus on the emergence of this industry, our dataset includes every new ICT firm in France in the period 1993–2001. We find evidence for the positive effect of co-location with incumbent ICT firms and some effect of knowledge spillovers. The effects of agglomeration, entrepreneurial capital and human capital are mixed.
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Footnotes
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See also: Armington and Acs (2002); Audretsch and Fritsch (1994); Garofoli (1994); Guesnier (1994); Keeble and Walker (1994).
 
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The difference in R 2 between the ‘total’ regression and the regressions when one factor group is deleted from this regression are as follows: agglomeration (−0.016), entrepreneurship capital (−0.024), human capital (−0.026), knowledge spillovers (−0.004), and geographical proximity (−0.056).
 
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Metadata
Title
Regional determinants of ICT new firm formation
Authors
Frank Lasch
Frank Robert
Frédéric Le Roy
Publication date
01-04-2013
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Small Business Economics / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9382-z

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