Entrepreneurship, Industrial Location and Economic Growth

‘Being asked to write a foreword to Chris Freeman’s Selected Essays has been for me an honour and a privilege. . . As one of the most prominent founding fathers of the economics of innovation as a distinct sub-discipline of social science and as influential maître-à-penser within and outside evolutionary economics and economic history, he has deserved for quite a while the most prestigious recognition in economics. . .’
– From the foreword by Giovanni Dosi

‘This important new book brings together a collection of penetrating new analyses linking regional economic growth and development to the entrepreneurial capacity of a region. Policymakers concerned with regional economic development as well as scholars will find this book an invaluable guide to understanding the new driving force, entrepreneurship, for economic growth.’
– David Audretsch, Indiana University, Bloomington, US and Otto Beisheim School WHU, Germany

Contributors: Á. Alañón-Pardo, S. Arando, J.M. Arauzo-Carod, C. Autant-Bernard, R. Eamets, S. Esteve-Pérez, J.C. Fariñas, J. Jofre-Monseny, D. Liviano-Solís, P. López-García, F. Lotti, M.C. Manjón-Antolín, J.A. Máñez-Castillejo, A. Martín-Marcos, I. Mariotti, M. Martín-Bofarull, J. Masso, P. McCann, R. Moreno, R. Myro-Sánchez, M. Navarro, R. Ortega-Argilés, M. Peneder, I. Peña, K. Philips, L. Piscitello, S. Puente-Díaz, M.E. Rochina-Barrachina, W. Rogowski, S. Ruano, J.A. Sanchiz-Llopis, E. Santarelli, A. Segarra-Blasco, J. Simonen, J. Socha, E. Stam, M. Teruel-Carrizosa, M. Vivarelli, R. Winters

Contents:

INTRODUCTION
1. Entrepreneurship, Industrial Location and Economic Growth: An Appraisal
Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod and Miguel Carlos Manjón-Antolin

PART I: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
2. Entrepreneurial versus Routinized Regimes: Opportunity and the Cost of Experimentation
Michael Peneder

3. New Firms and Employment Growth: Some Empirical Evidence
Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod, Daniel Liviano-Solís and Mónica Martín-Bofarull

PART II: INDUSTRY DYNAMICS
4. Demography of Enterprises in Poland: Entry and Exit Rates in the Manufacturing Sector
Wojciech Rogowski and Jacek Socha

5. Creative Destruction and Transition: Evidence on Firm Demographics from Estonia
Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Kaia Philips

6. Sunk Costs, Industry Dynamics and Firm Productivity
José Carlos Fariñas, Ana Martín-Marcos and Sonia Ruano

PART III: GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF FIRMS
7. Gibrat’s Law as a Long-run Regularity: Theory and Evidence
Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

8. Growth, Age and Location in Spanish Hotels
Mercedes Teruel-Carrizosa and Agustí Segarra-Blasco

9. A Comparison of the Determinants of Survival of Spanish Firms Across Economic Sectors
Paloma López-García and Sergio Puente-Díaz

10. Product and Process Innovations and the Likelihood of Survival
Raquel Ortega-Argilés and Rosina Moreno

PART IV: FIRM LOCATION
11. Cross-border Business Networks: The Case of the Basque Eurocity Corridor
Saioa Arando, Mikel Navarro and Iñaki Peña

12. Beyond the Firm: Innovation and Networks of High-Technology SMEs
Rob Winters and Erik Stam

13. Accessibility, Agglomeration and Location
Ángel Alañón-Pardo, Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod and Rafael Myro-Sánchez

PART V: LOCATION AND GLOBALISATION PATTERNS
14. Individual and Regional Determinants of R&D Location
Corinne Autant-Bernard

15. The Impact of Outward FDI on Local Employment and Skill Upgrading: Preliminary Evidence from the Italian Case
Ilaria Mariotti and Lucia Piscitello

16. A Survival Analysis of Manufacturing Firms in Export Markets
Silviano Esteve-Pérez, Juan A. Máñez-Castillejo, María E. Rochina-Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis

PART VI: AGGLOMERATION AND GROWTH
17. Innovation, Co-operation, and Labour Mobility
Philip McCann and Jaakko Simonen

18. Agglomeration Economies and Firm Survival
Jordi Jofre-Monseny

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