The search for reliable and replicable strategies to stimulate regional economic prosperity is as old as the field of economic development itself. 1 These strategies have included encouraging direct investment, attracting and retaining business, and developing sector-based cluster strategies. 2 More recently, the role of entrepreneurship has been explicitly recognized, descriptively and prescriptively. Glaeser et al. and others have shown that one 60 innovations /
Isenberg et al. (Fri,) studied this question.