Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development - 9781843768906

Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic DevelopmentA Spatial Perspective\nAuthor(s): Henri L.F. de Groot, Peter Nijkamp, Roger R. Stough\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781843768906, 978-1843768906\nSynopsis\nIn a shrinking and increasingly globalised world, it is vital for any entrepreneur to carefully select the location at which production or other economic activities will occur. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of entrepreneurial behaviour in a spatial context, and links it to important new fields in economics such as endogenous growth theory, the new economic geography and evolutionary theory. Although most of the literature to date has failed to study the geographic element of entrepreneurship, this book redresses the balance by examining the spatial variation in entrepreneurial activity and the implications of this for regional policy. The authors provide an in-dept.