Johannes von Bloh

• Leibniz Universität Hannover

Purpose Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EES) is among the fastest growing entrepreneurship research topics. With even greater vigour, the non-scientific world of economic development agencies, administrations and policymakers has adopted the construct and applies it widely “in the field”, often lacking a solid empirical foundation and pursuing sub-opti...

Although conventional register and survey data on entrepreneurship have enabled remarkable insights into the phenomenon, the added value has slowed down noticeably over the last decade. There is a need for fresh approaches utilising modern data sources such as Big Data. Until now, it has been quite unknown whether Big Data actually embodies valuabl...

The term ‘entrepreneurial eco-system’ (EES) currently belongs to the most popular ones in economic geography – and in the practice of start-up support policies in many countries, too. Due to its exclusively positive connotations the usage of this term creates unrealistic hopes among entrepreneurship support practitioners. Scholars may be reminded t...

Transnational Entrepreneurship (TE) is an increasingly important phenomenon, symptomatic for a globalised world with a large extent of migrants and interchanges between their countries of origin and residence. Our article deploys a unique data set which compares TE for two different national contexts and institutional settings: Chile and Germany. U...

Die deutsche Gesellschaft altert, auch Zuwanderung und der aktuelle Geburtenzuwachs können diesen Trend nicht aufhalten. Das Alter, in dem jemand bevorzugt ein Unternehmen gründet, bleibt dagegen konstant. Ergebnisse der jährlichen Befragungen des „Global Entrepreneurship Monitors“ in Deutschland zeigen, dass es unter den Jüngeren nach wie vor deut...