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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Institutionen för Industriell Ekonomi, Blekinge … - 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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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Growth, Agglomeration and Convergence: a Space-time Analysis for European Regions

Bosker, Maarten - In: Spatial Economic Analysis 2 (2007) 1, pp. 91-100

on the convergence hypothesis. Using a sample of 208 European regions over 25 years, ‘standard’ growth regressions are … growth in one's own region. The implied convergence rate is also affected when the inter- and intraregional aspects of … agglomeration are taken into account, where the former (latter) results in lower (slightly higher) convergence estimates. …

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Centres and Peripheries in Finland: Granger Causality Tests Using Panel Data

Tervo, Hannu - In: Spatial Economic Analysis 4 (2009) 4, pp. 377-390

Abstract Despite their importance from a policy point of view, empirical studies on the effects of growth centres in their regions are rare. This paper analyses mutual relationships between growth processes in centres and their surrounding hinterlands in 19 Finnish regions. Annual population...

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Media clusters and metropolitan knowledge economy

Karlsson, Charlie; Rouchy, Philippe - Institutionen för Industriell Ekonomi, Blekinge … - 2014

Large media clusters have emerged in a limited number of large cities, characterizing the geographical concentration of the global media industry. This paper starts by exploring the effect of the rapid advancement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) had on the media economy. It...

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