【摘要】Taking the entrepreneurial activities as a local phenomenon; this paper aims to investigate the way that individual’s active embeddedness in cluster environmentinfluences on the entrepreneurial intentions and locational preference of the nascententrepreneurs. Drawing on the employee survey data in the Tianhe Software Park in Guangzhou; China; the empirical results have distinguished between impacts of cluster on nurturing and anchoring nascent entrepreneurs. Firstly; it has been shown that the awareness of role model entrepreneurs in the cluster enhances the entrepreneurialintentions of the employees. Secondly; the embeddedness in personal relations with suppliers and customers has proven to exert significant impact in the locationalpreferences toward the cluster of origin. Overall; the findings of the paper have shedlight on how cluster environment poses its impact on nascent entrepreneurs throughdifferent mechanisms in the different decision-making processes. The implications ofthe findings for entrepreneurial policy are discussed in the concluding section.

【文献来源】Fu W.Annals of regional Science.2016（3）