Entrepreneurship policy and regional economic growth exploring the link and theoretical implications

Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis: Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 123-144

  Grimm, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

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EID: 33747172093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28829-5_6     Document Type: Chapter

References (6)

1. The term 'E-Policy' was created and defined by Lundstrom and Stevenson (2001).
2. For more information on the link between institutional theory and entrepreneurship see Welter (2005: 94-98).
3. "MUnchner GrUnderstUdie" (Bruderl, Preisendorfer and Ziegler 1996 and 1992).
4. "Leipziger Griinderstudie" (Hinz 1998), and a survey conducted in the Ruhr area with special focus on Dortmund and Essen (Jansen and Weber 2003) in North-Rhine Westphalia.
5. According to the so-called "Policy Regulation Index" set up by the researchers in 2000, Germany held the poor position of 17 in an index of 20 countries, and in 2002 it held the low rank of 20 out of 34 countries (Reynolds et al 2001).
6. Particular criticism was directed towards a bureaucratic administration which lacks flexibility, transparency, and has a "civil servant mentality". Other points of criticism were bureaucratic rivalry, a lack of centralized information services (one-stop shops) within the German regions and lack of economics and business skills in public institutions.