Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms
构建了一个聚焦知识溢出和区域吸收能力的创业生态系统框架，利用英国378个区域的面板数据，发现知识创造和知识溢出是解释高成长企业区域差异的关键因素。
Knowledge created outside the firm, but within the same region, is a key enabler of high-growth firms. This paper develops an entrepreneurial ecosystems conceptual framework focussing on knowledge spillovers and regional absorptive capacity, to account for interregional differences in high-growth firm rates. This is tested using panel data from 378 regions in Great Britain. Knowledge creation (SME-engaging and research-intensive universities, innovative firms) and knowledge spillovers (primarily through vertically related industries) reveal to be of key importance. Other key regional enablers of high growth firms pertain to entrepreneurship culture, talent, intermediate services, networks, finance and demand growth.