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Cultural Diversity and Knowledge in Explaining Entrepreneurial Outcomes in European Cities

Audretsch, D; Belitski, M; Korosteleva, J; (2019) Cultural Diversity and Knowledge in Explaining Entrepreneurial Outcomes in European Cities. Small Business Economics 10.1007/s11187-019-00191-4. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This study establishes and empirically explores the relationship between knowledge, cultural diversity and various entrepreneurial outcomes across European cities in 2008-2010. We demonstrate that the mechanism of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship, is contextual and contend, that cultural diversity and knowledge have differential impact on entrepreneurial outcomes across cities and countries. Cities with high cultural diversity provide more opportunities for entrepreneurship in sectors where technology and knowledge play more important role. While in technology-based sectors we observe a decline in employment, in cities where cultural diversity is moderately high, this effect is counteracted by an increase in demand for skillful labour that is more concentrated in culturally diverse contexts. Implications for regional and national policy makers and international entrepreneurs are offered.

Type: Article
Title: Cultural Diversity and Knowledge in Explaining Entrepreneurial Outcomes in European Cities
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-019-00191-4
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00191-4
Language: English
Additional information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10067481
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