Demand pull or supply push? Metro-level analysis of start-ups in the United States
dc.contributor.author | Motoyama, Yasuyuki | |
dc.contributor.author | Malizia, Emil | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-31T16:53:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-31T16:53:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Motoyama, Y., & Malizia, E. (2017). Demand pull or supply push? Metro-level analysis of start-ups in the United States. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 4(1), 232-246. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25851 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines factors related to higher regional start-up activity. Two hypotheses are formulated to explain start-ups: the demand-pull hypothesis argues that the amount, growth and density of aggregate demand will stimulate start-ups in any sectors; and the supply-push hypothesis argues that factors including high-tech industry concentrations, patent generation, industrial and university research activities, and government funding will stimulate high-tech start-ups. Both hypotheses support the importance of human capital factors, such as a highly educated or skilled workforce and thick labour markets. The paper incorporates these various measures and employs cross-sectional multivariate analysis of start-up rates in all sectors and in high-tech sectors in 366 metropolitan areas as defined by the US Census Bureau in 2009. Overall, very strong support is found for the demand-pull hypothesis, but only modest support for the supply-push hypothesis, which provide substantial caveats for public policy to promote start-up activities. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Entrepreneurship | en_US |
dc.subject | Regional development | en_US |
dc.subject | Innovation | en_US |
dc.subject | Knowledge spillover | en_US |
dc.title | Demand pull or supply push? Metro-level analysis of start-ups in the United States | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Motoyama, Yasuyuki | |
kusw.kudepartment | Geography & Atmospheric Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/21681376.2017.1379885 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
kusw.proid | 158069913600 | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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