Creating an entrepreneurial region: exploring the entrepreneurial capacity of the East Midlands

Atherton, Andrew and Frith, Kirk (2005) Creating an entrepreneurial region: exploring the entrepreneurial capacity of the East Midlands. Project Report. University of Lincoln.

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Abstract

Entrepreneurial regions display characteristics that are consonant with economic
prosperity and growth. They have high levels of business start-up, often of high quality
ventures, and an adaptable and flexible indigenous population of firms that are
innovative and trade extensively outside the region as well as creating new economic
opportunity within it. These regions represent, as such, a desirable ‘local economy’ in
which economic development and growth can be sustained.
This paper explores the notion of the entrepreneurial region, and in particular the
relevance and appropriateness of this concept to the East Midlands. Via an assessment
of existing data and studies, an outline framework is developed that depicts aspects and
dimensions of an entrepreneurial region. This framework is then applied to the East
Midlands to gauge how entrepreneurial the region is.

Keywords:Growth, EMDA, East Midlands Development Agency
Subjects:L Social studies > L360 Socio-economics
N Business and Administrative studies > N100 Business studies
Divisions:Lincoln International Business School
ID Code:14520
Deposited On:16 Jul 2014 15:29

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