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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...

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Smile-and-go : regional performance through global value chains in Europe

Capello, Roberta; Dellisanti, Roberto - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 103 (2024) 2, pp. 1-10

By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can...

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After crisis scenarios for CEECs : alternative evolutions of structural adjustments

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea - 2014

social cohesion scenario displays less effectiveness in fostering convergence processes. These results may drive future …

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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic … scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide additional information on the spatial aspect of convergence. Spatial … econometric methods are used to investigate regional convergence in West Germany. The results indicate that spatial interaction is …

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth

Capello, Roberta - 2009

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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2021

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Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU

Bräuninger, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2005

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …

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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe

Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...

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Measuring border effects in European cross-border regions

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Fratesi, Ugo - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 7, pp. 986-996

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