Acta Oeconomica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 65: Issue 3
Quality-related regional differences in entrepreneurship based on the GEDI methodology: The case of Hungary
Authors:
Éva Komlósi University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

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László Szerb University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

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Zoltán J. Ács London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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Raquel Ortega-Argilés University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Pages:
455–477
Online Publication Date:
Sep 2015
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2015
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/032.65.2015.3.6
Keywords:
entrepreneurship; regional development; entrepreneurship policy; GEM; GEDI; Hungary; L26; O21; O43
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This paper presents a regional application of the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) methodology of Acs et al. (2013) to examine the level of entrepreneurship across Hungary’s seven NUTS-2 level regions between 2006 and 2012. The Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index (REDI) has been constructed for capturing the individual efforts, and their contextual features, of entrepreneurship across regions. The REDI method builds on a Systems of Entrepreneurship Theory and provides a way to profile Regional Systems of Entrepreneurship. Important aspects of the REDI method include the Penalty for Bottleneck analysis, which helps in identifying constraining factors in Regional Systems of Entrepreneurship, and Policy Portfolio Optimisation analysis, which helps policymakers consider trade-offs between alternative policy scenarios and associated allocations of policy resources. The paper describes the entrepreneurial disparities amongst Hungarian regions and provides public policy suggestions to improve the level of entrepreneurship and to optimise resource allocation over the 14 pillars of entrepreneurship in the seven Hungarian regions.

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Acta Oeconomica Periodical of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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  • László Csaba, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and Central European University, Austria
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  • Péter Halmai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and National University of Public Service, Hungary
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  • Michael Landesmann, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
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