Entrepreneurial regions: Do macro-psychological cultural characteristics of regions help solve the "knowledge paradox" of economics?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Obschonka, Martin ^a   Stuetzer, Michael ^b,c   Gosling, Samuel D ^d,e   Rentfrow, Peter J ^f   Lamb, Michael E ^f   Potter, Jeff ^g   Audretsch, David B ^h  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BADEN WUERTTEMBERG COOPERATIVE STATE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g Atof Inc   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAPITAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE CULTURE INTERACTION HYPOTHESIS; MIGRATION; PERSONALITY; POLICY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; REGIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; ENTREPRENEURSHIP;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939248114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129332     Document Type: Article

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