@techreport{e88acf7fecc8435196d0ef1245ebf3bd,
title = "Crises favor the prepared region: Digital transformation in regions during COVID-19 pandemic",
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.",
keywords = "Digital transformation, COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurialecosystems, regional development, online startups, e-commerce platforms",
author = "{van Dijk}, Jasper and Erik Stam and J.W.J. Weltevreden",
year = "2022",
language = "English",
series = "U.S.E. Working Paper Series",
publisher = "USE Research Institute",
number = "04",
pages = "3--19",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "USE Research Institute",
}