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The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms

verfasst von: Karl Wennberg, Göran Lindqvist

Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 3/2010

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This paper contributes to the literatures on entrepreneurship and economic geography by investigating the effects of clusters on the survival and performance of new entrepreneurial firms where clusters are defined as regional agglomerations of related industries. We analyze firm-level data for all 4,397 Swedish firms started in the telecom and consumer electronics, financial services, information technology, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical sectors from 1993 to 2002. We find that that firms located in strong clusters create more jobs, higher tax payments, and higher wages to employees. These effects are consistent for absolute agglomeration measures (firm or employee counts), but weaker for relative agglomeration measures (location quotients). The strengths of the effects are found to vary depending on which geographical aggregation level is chosen for the agglomeration measure.

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Titel: The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms
verfasst von: Karl Wennberg
Göran Lindqvist
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2010
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 3/2010
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-008-9123-0

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