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Regions such as Silicon Valley have a strong reputation as a fertile ground for start-ups due to the pervasive entrepreneurial spirit among residents and professionals. Drawing inspiration from these success stories, policymakers worldwide strive to...

How does the experience of living in an authoritarian regime affect the decision-making of an individual in their later life as a founder and leader of a firm in the context of a liberal market economy? Researchers from the Department of Innovation...

There is a long debate about the role of cultural attitudes in favor of entrepreneurship for actual start-up behavior. Places like the Silicon Valley are often cited as fertile breeding grounds for start-ups because of widespread entrepreneurial values...

Innovation is a crucial driver for economic development at the national but also at the regional level. At the same time, the level of innovation activity is marked by huge regional differences. In the Netherlands, for example, in the NUTS3-region...

Creating a more entrepreneurial society is currently an important topic in the political dialogue. It is, for example, an explicit goal on the policy agenda of the European Union. A main motivation behind the attempts to create a more entrepreneurial...