INVESTIGADORES
ROCHA Hector
artículos
Título:
Entrepreneurship: The Role of Clusters. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence from Germany.
Autor/es:
ROCHA, H., STERNBERG, R
Revista:
Small Business Economics
Editorial:
Small Business Economics
Referencias:
Año: 2005 p. 257 - 292
Resumen:
ABSTRACT. This paper is about the impact of clusters on
entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship
as the creation of new organisations and clusters
as a geographically proximate group of interconnected
firms and associated institutions in related industries, this
paper aims to answer three research questions: first, do clusters
matter to entrepreneurship at the regional level? Second,
if clusters are associated with different levels of
entrepreneurship, what explains those differences? Third,
what do the answers to the previous questions imply for
academics and policy makers? To answer these questions,
this paper distinguishes between clusters and industrial
agglomerations and advances a theoretical model and
empirical research to explain the impact of clusters on
entrepreneurship at the regional level. This paper uses the
97 German planning regions as units of analysis to test the
hypotheses. Using hypotheses testing and OLS fixed-effects
model, this paper finds that clusters do have an impact on
entrepreneurship at the regional level, but industrial
agglomerations do not. Implications for academics and policy
makers and suggestions for future research are given in
the concluding section.