ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the persistent levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. It focuses on research conducted within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 'Social Developments in Post-Socialist Societies — Discontinuity, Tradition, Structural Formation' at the universities of Halle and Jena, Germany. The chapter explains persistence of regional entrepreneurship for periods as long as eighty years. It reviews the research on the persistence of regional entrepreneurship and discusses the concept of an entrepreneurial culture or entrepreneurship capital. The chapter also explains the empirical strategy in more detail and provides an overview on the different scenarios used for the analysis. It analyses the persistence of entrepreneurship in these scenarios. The chapter also discusses the results, draws policy conclusions and proposes avenues for further research. The persistence of regional entrepreneurship is analysed in different scenarios that relate to different time periods and regions.
