caa a22 4500 445877413 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-009-9255-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-009-9255-x Dejardin Marcus Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Business Administration, FUNDP—University of Namur, Rempart de la Vierge, 8, 5000, Namur, Belgium aut Linking net entry to regional economic growth [Elektronische Daten] [Marcus Dejardin] Regional growth differentials could be explained by how intensively and dynamically new firms of a particular region enter expanding industries. Although the direct contribution of new firms to value creation and growth may be regarded as tautological, the aggregate impacts are largely empirically unobserved. After a brief motivation, we use an expression of firm net entry as an indicator of the distinctive capacity of regional entrepreneurial resources to enter new industries and create value. Using data for Belgian districts, we test the net entry effects on subsequent economic growth in the manufacturing and services industries. Our analysis helps emphasize the different dynamics at work within the manufacturing and services industries and, although requiring cautious interpretation, provides evidence for some positive impact of net entry on regional economic growth in the services industry. The Author(s), 2009 Net entry nationallicence Entrepreneurship nationallicence Economic growth nationallicence Region nationallicence Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/4(2011-05-01), 443-460 0921-898X 36:4<443 2011 36 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9255-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9255-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dejardin Marcus Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Business Administration, FUNDP—University of Namur, Rempart de la Vierge, 8, 5000, Namur, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/4(2011-05-01), 443-460 0921-898X 36:4<443 2011 36 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer