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AbstractThis study estimates econometric models to evaluate the linkage between broadband Internet connections and firms in counties across the urban hierarchy within the continentalU.S. Industry‐related variations in this relationship are also explored using varied definitions of the urban hierarchy. Model results indicate broadband presence in remote areas is not an explanatory factor of establishment presence. Results also suggest the manner in which the urban hierarchy is defined matters. Traditional metropolitan/nonmetropolitan and urban/rural splits of locales are insufficient to capture the geographic and industrial nuances behind this relationship.

1. The geography of entrepreneurship / Elizabeth A. Mack -- 2. The geography of the innovation-entrepreneurship nexus in Europe / Roberta Capello and Camilla cultures -- 3. Networking practices and networking cultures / Ben Spigel -- 4. The persistence of regional entrepreneurship : are all types of self-employment equally important? / Michael Fritsch and Michael Wyrwich -- 5. Two strands of entrepreneurship : a tale of technology ventures and traditional small business in South Korea / Jun Koo and Songhee Yoo -- 6. The development of entrepreneurship in China : a geographical and institutional perspective / Canfei He, Qi Guo, and Shengjun Zhu -- 7. The intra-metropolitan geography of entrepreneurship : a spatial, temporal, and industrial analysis (1989-2010) / Elizabeth A. Mack and Kevin Credit -- 8. Are start-ups the same everywhere? The urban-rural skill gap in Swedish entrepreneurship / Martin Andersson, Sierdjan Koster and Niclas Lavesson -- 9. Entrepreneurship in peripheral regions : a relational perspective / Sandra Burcher, Antoine Habersetzer and Heike Mayer -- 10. The geography of entrepreneurship : where are we? Where do we go? / Haifeng Qian.

Inner city revitalization efforts centered on fostering new business activity are controversial because they assume that the job creating capacity of new businesses is capable of impacting aggregate employment levels in inner city neighborhoods. Given this controversy, this article examines the link between new business activity and inner city employment growth in Phoenix, Arizona. Analytical results highlight job creation from new business activity but a net negative association between new business activity and employment growth stemming from the loss of jobs from large employers in inner city neighborhoods. This relationship highlights that encouraging new business activity is not necessarily a bad idea for local residents and customers, but should not be viewed as a panacea for all inner city problems. Instead, new business activity should be viewed as one component of multifaceted initiatives to revitalize inner city neighborhoods.

Land-grant universities are distinctly American institutions of higher education in two respects. First, the establishment of a land-grant university was an independent act by the US federal government that endowed specific counties across the country with a university. Second, their mission of inclusion, with an emphasis on the agricultural and mechanic arts, was designed to educate the industrial class for professional life. Despite these institutions' unique founding and mission, however, land-grant universities have received little specific attention in the broader literature on university impacts. Given the comparatively little attention devoted to these institutions, the goal of this study is to use a descriptive and exploratory quasi-experimental analysis to evaluate the potential impacts of land-grant institutions on their local communities. The results of this analysis suggest that land-grant universities do impact their local communities, but that these impacts did not begin to appear until approximately sixty years after their initial founding.

AbstractA foundational tenet of US broadband policy is that competition will yield benefits to consumers. An outstanding question related to this policy is whether stimulating competition has worked. This study outlines a methodology and index, the broadband evolution index (BEI) that facilitates the spatio‐temporal analysis of broadband markets. Study results suggest lagging areas have caught up to leading areas in terms of the quantity of providers present. They have not caught up with respect to provider choice, platform choice, and access to high broadband speeds. This finding of a persistent urban/rural divide suggests public intervention in private markets is necessary, as is additional evaluation of the efficacy of these intervention strategies.