Non-Financial Instruments Supporting New Firm Formation as an Element of Local Public Policies on Entrepreneurship
Non-Financial Instruments Supporting New Firm Formation as an Element of Local Public Policies on Entrepreneurship

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to determine the scope of use of non-financial entrepreneurship support instruments by local government units (LGUs) in Poland, taking into account generic categories of communes. It will also check the spatial relationships between the use of non-financial instruments by communes and the new firms’ birth in their area. For this purpose, a study was designed based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) sample, consisting of 896 Polish communes (i.e., over 35% of all LGUs). In order to carry out such large and spatially distributed research, an original questionnaire was constructed. The CATI method was used for its implementation. No research has been carried out so far in Poland on the diagnosis of entrepreneurship support instruments by communes with such a wide profile and on such a large and internally and spatially diversified sample. The research showed a relationship between the scope of entrepreneurship support instruments and the type of commune. The instruments implemented by rural communes were of a different nature than those used by urban, urban-rural communes and cities with county rights. The demonstrated differences, however, were not the result of the adaptation of instruments to the type of commune but the result of the conviction about the efficiency of a given form of support. The research also made it possible to identify clusters of communes with high and low entrepreneurship. The communes where the newest firms were established were located in regions of communes with high entrepreneurship.

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