Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29421 
Year of Publication: 
1995
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 95-11
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper studies the effect of regional spillovers on the rate of firm formation in two major West German industries for the time period from 1989 to 1993. I exploit regional variations in firm formation at the county level to identify the effects of historically given industry structure and employment structure on the emergence of new firms. The results are consistent with the existence of localization and urbanization effects. The emergence of high technology firms seems to be contingent on a heterogeneous historical industry structure, the existence of service providers and in particular on a high share of scientists in universities and extra-university research laboratories.
JEL: 
O30
O18
R30
R58
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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