caa a22 4500 445877421 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-009-9251-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-009-9251-1 New business formation in a rapidly growing economy: the Irish experience [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Anyadike-Danes, Mark Hart, Helena Lenihan] The extraordinary growth of the Irish economy since the mid-1990s—the ‘Celtic Tiger'—has attracted a great deal of interest, commentary and research. Indeed, many countries look to Ireland as an economic development role model, and it has been suggested that Ireland might provide key lessons for other EU members as they seek to achieve the objectives set out in the Lisbon Agenda. Much of the discussion of Ireland's growth has focused on its possible triggers: the long-term consequences of the late 1980s fiscal stabilisation, EU structural funds, education, wage moderation and devaluation of the Irish punt. The industrial policy perspective has highlighted the importance of inflows of foreign direct investment, but a notable absence from the discourse on the ‘Celtic Tiger' has been any mention of the role of new business venture creation and entrepreneurship. In this paper we use unpublished Irish VAT data for the years 1988-2004 to provide the first detailed look at national trends in business birth and death rates in Ireland over the ‘take-off' period. We also use sub-national VAT data to shed light on spatial trends in new venture creation. Our overall conclusions are that new business formation made no detectable contribution to the acceleration of Ireland's growth in the late 1990s, although we do find evidence of spatial convergence in per capita business stocks. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2010 New firm formation nationallicence Employment growth nationallicence Spatial variation nationallicence Ireland nationallicence Anyadike-Danes Michael Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland, 2-14 East Bridge Street, BT1 3NQ, Belfast, UK aut Hart Mark Aston Business School, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK aut Lenihan Helena Department of Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland aut Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/4(2011-05-01), 503-516 0921-898X 36:4<503 2011 36 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9251-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9251-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Anyadike-Danes Michael Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland, 2-14 East Bridge Street, BT1 3NQ, Belfast, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hart Mark Aston Business School, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lenihan Helena Department of Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/4(2011-05-01), 503-516 0921-898X 36:4<503 2011 36 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer