Entrepreneurship, Industrial Location and Economic Growth: An Appraisal

Abstract

Seventeen papers, originally presented at the "Workshop on Firm Demography and Industrial Location" held at the Rovira i Virgili University in November 2005, examine the interrelations between entrepreneurship, industrial location, and economic growth. Papers discuss entrepreneurial versus routinized regimes--opportunity and the cost of experimentation; new firms and employment growth--some empirical evidence; the demography of enterprises in Poland--entry and exit rates in the manufacturing sector; creative destruction and transition--evidence on firm demographics from Estonia; sunk costs, industry dynamics, and firm productivity; Gibrat's Law as a long-run regularity--theory and evidence; growth, age, and location in Spanish hotels; a comparison of the determinants of survival of Spanish firms across economic sectors; product and process innovations and the likelihood of survival; cross-border business networks--the case of the Basque Eurocity Corridor; beyond the firm--innovation and networks of high-technology small and medium enterprises; accessibility, agglomeration, and location; individual and regional determinants of research and development location; the impact of outward foreign direct investment on local employment and skill upgrading--preliminary evidence from the Italian case; a survival analysis of manufacturing firms in export markets; innovation, cooperation, and labor mobility; and agglomeration economies and firm survival. Arauzo-Carod and Manjon-Antolin are in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Rovira i Virgili University. Index.