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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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The Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

In our analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on...

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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited - The Case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...

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Convergence des émissions par tête de dioxyde de carbone : Le rôle de l'éducation

Kinda, Somlanaré Romuald - HAL - 2009

Cet article a pour but d'analyser le rôle de l'éducation dans la convergence des émissions par tête de dioxyde de …'une convergence des émissions par tête de dioxyde de carbone au niveau mondial. Dans les pays en développement il y a une divergence … convergence si et seulement si elle est associée à de bonnes institutions politiques. En absence de celles-ci, l'éducation est …

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Low climate stabilisation under diverse growth and convergence scenarios

Criqui, Patrick; Gonzalez-Eguino, Mikel; Markandaya, Anil; … - HAL - 2014

and convergence levels. A partial equilibrium model (POLES) of the world's energy system is used to provide detailed … global growth. Convergence in living standards on the other hand places greater pressures in terms of the required reduction …

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Anonymous social influence

Foerster, Manuel; Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2013

and sufficient condition for convergence to consensus and characterize outcomes where the society ends up polarized. Our …

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The Third sector in Europe; Does it exhibit a converging movement?

Archambault, Edith - HAL - 2009

The European Union in its widening movement shows five clusters of Third sector organisations with complex bonds and ties with the surrounding societies and national identities In introduction, we compare briefly the Europe's Third sector features to North America's ones (Historical and...

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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies

Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltan J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...

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Knowledge Structure and Regional Economic Growth: The French case

Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2011

The paper investigate the effects of knowledge on economic growth at the regional level Methodology approach: We elaborate a view on knowledge as the result of a combinatorial search activity and implement indicators synthesizing the network architecture of knowledge structure Findings:...

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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