Crises favor the prepared region: Digital transformation in regions during COVID-19 pandemic
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2022
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van Dijk, Jasper
Stam, Erik
Weltevreden, J.W.J.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation, but with substantial regional differences in the speed of this transformation. In this paper we show that the COVID-19 pandemic favors the prepared region: regions with a high quality entrepreneurial ecosystem seem to be more adaptive in the sense of revealing a more rapid digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper we analyzed this spatially uneven digital transformation with data on (1) startups (new retail web shops) and (2) established firms (new entrants on the largest e-commerce platform in the Netherlands) in the 40 city regions of the Netherlands.
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Digital transformation, COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurialecosystems, regional development, online startups, e-commerce platforms
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van Dijk, J, Stam, E & Weltevreden, J W J 2022 'Crises favor the prepared region : Digital transformation in regions during COVID-19 pandemic' U.S.E. Working Paper Series, no. 04, vol. 22, USE Research Institute, pp. 3-19. < https://www.uu.nl/sites/default/files/LEG_USE_WP_22-04.pdf >