Authors:

  • Ramana Nanda
  • Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

Excerpt

Regional Variation in Venture Capital: Causes and Consequences. Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, March 22, 2016, Book Chapter. "Entrepreneurship is a central element of the Schumpeterian process of creative destruction (Schumpeter, 1942). Startups have been associated with the birth of important new industries such as semiconductors and computers, the internet and biotechnology, and there is increasing evidence of the important role that startup firms play in driving aggregate productivity growth in the economy (Aghion and Howitt, 1992; King and Levine, 1993; Foster et al., 2008)." Link