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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...

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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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Productivity in the euro area: any evidence of convergence?

Sondermann, David - European Central Bank - 2012

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. JEL Classification: C33, O47, J24, L60, L80 …

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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011

This paper first presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance of different transmission channels of the global economic and financial crisis to Sub-Saharan African countries. It then examines the repercussions of the crisis for the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and its...

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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011

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Agglomeration, clusters and entrepreneurship : studies in regional economic development

Johansson, Börje (contributor); … - 2014

Regional economic development has experienced considerable dynamism over recent years. Perhaps the most notable cases were the rise of China and India to emergent country status by the turn of the millennium. With time now for hindsight, this book identifies some of the key forces behind these...

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Economic growth and change : national and regional patterns of convergence and divergence

Pigliaru, Francesco (contributor); Adams, John (contributor) - 1999

authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global …

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Knowledge, innovation and space

Karlsson, Charlie (contributor) - 2014

This volume extends our understanding of the many different ways in which distance impacts the knowledge conversion process. While addressing different facets of knowledge, innovation and space, the authors provide an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with the...

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Handbook of regional growth and development theories

Nijkamp, Peter (contributor); Capello, Roberta (contributor) - 2009

Regional economics - an established discipline for several decades - has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology has shown surprising development. This volume brings together contributions looking at new...

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China and its regions : economic growth and reform in Chinese provinces

Renard, Mary-Françoise (contributor) - 2002

convergence in China's reforming economy -- 6. The impact of WTO accession on income disparity in China -- 7. Changes in income …

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