Entrepreneurial innovativeness: when too little or too much agglomeration hurts
Fecha
2023Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
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10.1016/j.respol.2022.104625
Resumen
This study sheds light on the relationship between agglomeration, entrepreneurs' internal resources and capabilities, and new ventures' innovativeness using a multilevel framework. We argue that the urban agglomeration
of economic agents within a country has an inverted U-shaped relationship with new ventures' innovativeness,
suggesting that both insufficient and excessive agglomeration might b ...
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This study sheds light on the relationship between agglomeration, entrepreneurs' internal resources and capabilities, and new ventures' innovativeness using a multilevel framework. We argue that the urban agglomeration
of economic agents within a country has an inverted U-shaped relationship with new ventures' innovativeness,
suggesting that both insufficient and excessive agglomeration might be detrimental to entrepreneurial innovativeness. Additionally, we perform interactions between individual level factors and urban agglomeration to
examine the differential effects of entrepreneurs' internal resources and capabilities. Results confirm our
hypothesising that the geographical concentration of economic agents within a country exerts an inverted Ushaped influence on new ventures' innovativeness. Furthermore, we find that entrepreneurs with higher levels of
education or prior entrepreneurial experience are better equipped to benefit from agglomeration and to mitigate
its negative effects; in contrast, at low levels of agglomeration, entrepreneurs with lower resources exhibit
increasing marginal returns. Entrepreneurs in contact with other entrepreneurs are better positioned to deal with
agglomeration externalities although their benefits and drawbacks are intensified. Our research contributes to
the understanding of agglomeration externalities and entrepreneurial innovativeness, its non-linear dynamics
and differential effects. [--]
Materias
Entrepreneurship,
Firm heterogeneity,
Innovation,
Multi-level analysis,
Proximity paradox,
Urban agglomeration
Editor
Elsevier
Publicado en
Research Policy 52 (2023) 104625
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Enpresen Kudeaketa Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD
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Entidades Financiadoras
Project RTI2018-093791-B-C21 (MCIU, AEI/FEDER, UE). The authors acknowledge the financial support from Project RTI2018-093791-B-C21 (MCIU, AEI/FEDER, UE).