Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323036 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
U.S.E. Working Papers Series No. 22-04
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), Utrecht
Abstract: 
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation, but with substantial regional differences in the speed of this transformation. In this paper we show that the COVID-19 pandemic favors the prepared region: regions with a high quality entrepreneurial ecosystem seem to be more adaptive in the sense of revealing a more rapid digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper we analyzed this spatially uneven digital transformation with data on (1) startups (new retail web shops) and (2) established firms (new entrants on the largest e-commerce platform in the Netherlands) in the 40 city regions of the Netherlands.
Subjects: 
Digital transformation
COVID-19 pandemic
entrepreneurial ecosystems
regional development
online startups
e-commerce platforms
JEL: 
L16
L26
M13
P00
R1
R11
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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