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Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper focuses on the concept of knowledge and examines models depicting and explaining the role of knowledge in regional development and provides an assessment of empirical studies of how knowledge affects growth and development in functional regions. For this paper it is crucial to...

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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742097

LABOR MOBILITY, KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL GROWTH

Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between inter-firm labor mobility and regional productivity growth. Previous studies have shown that density is positively correlated with growth. I claim that it is not density in itself, but rather the attributes associated with it that drives economic...

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Knowledge Capital as the Source of Growth

Piekkola, Hannu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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Entrepreneurship and Local Growth - a comparison of the U.S. and Sweden

Borgman, Benny; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

The U.S. is traditionally viewed as an economy driven by entrepreneurs, whereas the Swedish model is associated with high welfare ambitions and less focus on entrepreneurial activities. This paper seeks to empirically investigate whether the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the...

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The Micro-level Dynamics of Regional Productivity Growth: The Source of Divergence in Finland Revised

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence …

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Growth Prospects of Emerging Market Economies in Europe - How Fast Will They Catch up with the Old West?

Kaitila, Ville; Alho, Kari E. O.; Nikula, Nuutti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Using a neo-classical growth model, we analyse the real and nominal GDP per capita convergence of 21 emerging market … physical capital intensities in the long run. Due to standard-convergence in the model, catching up will continue at a … decelerating speed. Also nominal convergence in prices that will lead to a real appreciation of the EME currencies with respect to …

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Which Types of Relatedness Matter in Regional Growth? - Industry, occupation and education.

Wixe, Sofia; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper provides a conceptual discussion of relatedness, which suggests a focus on individuals as a complement to firms and industries. The empirical relevance of the main arguments are tested by estimating the effects of related and unrelated variety in education and occupation among...

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Knowledge and Innovation Subsidies as Engines for Growth. The Competitiveness of Finnish Regions

Piekkola, Hannu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? : The two faces of infrastructure investment

Cadot, Olivier (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in...

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