Tracking spatial distribution and regional characteristics of gazelles
利用2015-2021年芬兰注册数据分析瞪羚企业的空间分布及其与区域特征的关系，发现城市地区更易产生瞪羚企业，但部分农村地区也有较高的人均瞪羚企业率。
This study focuses on the spatial distribution of gazelle enterprises and their connections to regional characteristics, using register data-based analysis in Finland during the years 2015–2021. Contributing to the stream of high-growth firms research, this paper differentiates itself by recognizing the role of micro-sized firms in high-growth dynamics and analysing spatial patterns of gazelles in a sparsely populated country, mostly ignored by previous studies. By considering geographical dimensions, this study has broader implications contributing to the literature on regional disparities in entrepreneurship and innovation, especially in rural and peripheral regions. The main analyses were spatial and statistical aggregation, principal component analysis and univariate logistic regression. The essential findings show that urban regions are in general more capable of producing gazelles than rural regions, but also some rural regions have shown remarkably high gazelle per population rates. Thus, it appears that the absence of economies of scale does not prevent the occurrence of gazelles, and rural and remote regions may produce gazelles, although there is a great deal of variation. However, regional structural characteristics are connected to the presence of gazelles.