Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turbulent Times: Rethinking Regions and Cities, London, Birleşik Krallık, 14 - 15 Kasım 2019, ss.17
It has been widely recognized that entrepreneurship or new business formations by generating new employment, innovation and welfare effects are the crucial mechanism for economic development both at regional and national levels (Acs and Audretsch 1988; Wennekers and Thurik 1999; Baumol 2002; Acs et al., 2008). For this reason, various governments have started to support and encourage the formation of new businesses to achieve high levels of economic growth and development.
However, in recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to investigating how existing regional characteristics and attributes determine the level of regional entrepreneurial activity, although less attention is paid to the effects of changing regional characteristics and attributes on regional entrepreneurship. The present paper provides an explanation of the differences in levels of regional entrepreneurship, taking into account both existing and changing regional factors. The study goes further to identify the associations between these factors and regional entrepreneurship in an economically unstable period and in a period of steady growth. The findings reveal that both existing and changing regional factors play a key role in explaining variations in the level of regional entrepreneurship, but a comparison with the results of similar studies in developed countries reveals some surprising results. It is also evident that the relationship between entrepreneurship and regional factors has changed significantly between the two given periods, which have their own distinct characteristics.