Determinants of high-tech entrepreneurship in Europe
High-tech entrepreneurship is one of the main means by which new knowledge and technologies are converted into economic and social benefits. This report analyses the levels and determinants of high-tech entrepreneurship across European countries. To this end, it uses country-level data on high- and low-tech total early-stage entrepreneurial activity provided by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Panel data estimations for the period 2007-2014 reveal that EU Member States with better access to finance, less bureaucracy, more consistent policy regimes, favourable entrepreneurship education, and qualitative intellectual property rights that lower patent thicketing strategies exhibit a higher proportion of high-tech firm creation. In addition, greater technological density is associated with a higher rate of high-tech entrepreneurship creation, suggesting beneficial influences of path-dependency and agglomeration effects.
VAN ROY Vincent;
NEPELSKI Daniel;
2017-06-08
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC104865
978-92-79-64452-8,
1831-9424,
EUR 28299 EN,
OP LF-NA-28299-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC104865,
10.2791/96153,
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