Aleid Brouwer, Margo Enthoven (p)

Federica Rossi

This article analyses the role of values in the spatial concentration of SMEs in a low tech sector. Sustainable entrepreneurship is influenced by personal altruistic and egoistic values, while social networks influence the adoption of these values. Due to social convergence, actors in the same social network adopt similar values, which creates a higher likelihood of sustainable entrepreneurship in some networks. It is argued that physical proximity of actors in social networks facilitates spatial concentration due to a spillover effect of values. Spatial concentration is indicated using multiple spatial statistics, concluding that spatial concentration of sustainable entrepreneurship is different from spatial concentration of conventional entrepreneurship. Arguably, this difference is caused by a spatial variation of values.

Federica Rossi (p), Rico Maggi

Margo Enthoven

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