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Technology, learning, and long run economic growth in leading and lagging regions

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

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Innovation, decentralization, and planning in a multi-region model of Schumpeterian economic growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with N heterogeneous regions. For each region i where i=1,...,N, our analysis leads to five findings. First, we define the balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium...

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R&D and regional regeneration : the case of Alba subregion in Romania

Goschin, Zizi; Goschin, Georgiana-Gloria - 2014

Innovation and competitiveness are important factors for promoting economic growth not only nationally, but regionally as well. In Romania, research, development and innovation could be among the factors that are accountable for the increasing regional disparities, as the territorial...

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Innovation, income and regional development : an assessment of the importance of differences in regional potentials

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2016

growth performance and convergence. In the first part of the paper, the innovation performance of the regions is modelled … considered. In the second part of the paper the innovation performance is related to the process of convergence and divergence …. Earlier research has shown that although convergence is present at aggregated European Union level a much more diversified …

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Determinants of convergence and disparities in Europe : innovation, entrepreneurship and the processes of clustering : 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2012 - Preliminary version

economic activities metropolitan regions can lead to excess growth, and contribute to a process of convergence between nations … location quotients and the change of LQ) are included. Within these groups we study the process of convergence by use of the … traditional measures of convergence. The findings are compared with traditional geographical convergence results, enabling an …

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011

Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this...

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Regional FDI spillovers and local suppliers : disentangling the effects of foreign ownership, technology gap and absorptive capacity

Jordaan, Jacob A. - 2012

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...

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Economic social and environmental resilience : an analysis for the Italians regions after 2007

Martini, Barbara - 2014

Resilience is a physical, engineering and ecological concept. Recently it has attracted attention from regional analyst and it could be a key aspect of the dynamic of spatial economic system (Reggiani et al., 2002), especially concerning how such system responds to shocks, disturbances, and...

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Market potential and regional economic growth in Spain, 1860-1930

Martínez-Galarraga, Julio; Tirado Fabregat, Daniel A.; … - 2014

In this paper we employ parametric and nonparametric techniques to analyse the effect of the changes registered on regional market potential on the growth of Spanish regions during the period 1860-1930. The study of the Spanish experience during these years conforms a case study that allows...

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FDI and growth : can different regional identities shape the returns to foreign capital investments?

Casi, Laura; Resmini, Laura - 2014 - First draft

Do regional identities determine different levels of FDI-induced growth? This paper analyses the impact of FDI on the growth rates of European regions. In so doing, it discusses the role of different components of territorial capital in magnifying or daunting such an impact. The paper starts...

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