Scientific talks at the Fifth International ZEW Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship (CoDE)

This year's fifth international ZEW Conference "Dynamics of Entrepreneurship" (CoDE) took place on 12 and 13 October at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. The Thünen Institute of Rural Economics was represented by Christian Hundt and Christian Bergholz with one presentation each.

In his paper entitled "Varieties of Capitalism, Regions and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from Germany and England", Christian Hundt, together with his colleagues Rolf Sternberg (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Nehar Prashar (Aston Business School) and Lennard Stolz (Leibniz Universität Hannover), explores how the entrepreneurship behaviour of individuals is influenced in different institutional contexts. Initial results suggest that entrepreneurship activities develop better in the liberal and comparatively lightly regulated market economy of England than in the more collaboratively organised market economy in Germany. This is particularly evident in the transition from the pre-founding phase to market entry. Whereas in Germany many people cannot transfer their original intention to found a company into an actual start-up, this phenomenon, which indicates high barriers to founding, cannot be observed for England.

Contact: Dr. Christian Bergholz
              Prof. Dr. Christian Hundt