In this paper the reading behaviour of economists is examined to see whether particular typesof knowledge - basic and … mathematicalbackground start with a higher initial stock of knowledge of this type of literature. Businessand government economists …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

paradigm crisis, highlighting the strong links between the exploitation of knowledge and the accumulation of surplus. Therefore …, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the …

scientific and technological knowledge, the cognitive basis of entrepreneurship, and the competences for managing market and non … knowledge-base needed for their peoples' well-being and their firms' competitive success in international markets. Nor does the … information infrastructure investments in order to reduce the costs of effective access to global knowledge bases in science and …

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … endogenously via R&D results in knowledge spillovers. Such spillovers give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

machinery and for the importance of knowledge spillovers, we find that jobs characterized by a unique knowledge base exhibit … higher levels of geographic concentration than do occupations with generic knowledge requirements. Further, by analyzing co …-agglomeration patterns, we find that occupations with similar knowledge requirements tend to co-agglomerate. Both results provide new …