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The Inventive, the Educated, and the Creative: How Do They Affect Metropolitan Productivity?

Lobo, José; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two … the individual or firm owning the idea. Typically these steps are combined into a single model of the “invention in/productivity …

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Skill and Cross-National Economic Performance

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

performance for 55 to 78 countries, using three measures of economic performance – economic output (GDP per capita), productivity … (total factor productivity) and innovative performance (patents). The results confirm the hypothesis, indicating that our …

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Human Capital in Cities and Suburbs

Stolarick, Kevin; Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Research on human capital generally focuses on the regional level, and neglects the relative effects of its distribution between center cities and surrounding suburbs. This research examines the effects of this intra-metropolitan distribution on economic performance. The findings indicate that...

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The Creative Class or Human Capital? - explaining regional development in Sweden

Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Human capital is observed to be an important contributor to growth but unevenly distributed geographically. While there is consensus on the importance of human capital to economic development, debate takes shape around two central issues. First, there is the question of how best to measure human...

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Creative China? The University, Tolerance and Talent in Chinese Regional Development

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Qian, Haifeng - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

The relationships between talent, technology and regional development have been widely examined in the advanced economies. While there is a general consensus as to the important role talent plays in regional development, debate has emerged on two key issues. The first involves the efficacy of...

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Inside the Black Box of Regional Development - human capital, the creative class and tolerance

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

outperforms conventional educational attainment measures in accounting for regional labor productivity measured as wages, while …

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The Rise of Skills: Human Capital, the Creative Class and Regional Development

Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

The past couple of decades have seen what amounts to skills revolution in urban and regional economic research. From industrial location theory and Alfred Marshall’s concern for agglomeration to more recent research on high-tech districts and industrial clusters firms and industries has been...

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Rise of the Startup City: The Changing Geography of the Venture Capital Financed Innovation

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

The prevailing geographic model for high-technology industrial organization has been the “nerdistan,” a sprawling, car-oriented suburb organized around office parks, of which Silicon Valley is the prototypical example. This seems to contradict a basic insight of urban theory, which...

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A Spatial ICT Clusters in Sweden – An Empirical Method to Identify Necessary Conditions for Existence

Karlsson, Charlie; Mellander, Charlotta; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

An empirical method to identify the existence of a spatial cluster is proposed. The method, based upon regression analysis, offers researchers to categorise regions, municipalities, or cities with respect to their over- or under-representation in number of establishments and employment for any...

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The Geography of Inequality: Difference and Determinants of Wage and Income Inequality across US Metros

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper examines the geographic variation in inequality, and it distinguishes between wage and income inequality. Wage inequality is associated with skills, human capital, technology and metro size - in line with the literature on skill-biased technical change. Income inequality is instead...

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