In this paper, I explain Thünens pioneering work on industrial agglomeration. In my opinion, Thünens thinking on industrial agglomeration was not only amazingly advanced for his time, but in many respects remains novel even today. It is shown that if we unify Thünens well-known theory on...

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from the rest of the world. The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...

This paper presents a new framework for modeling the fine microstructure of knowledge creation dynamics. Our focus is on the creation of working nowledge used in innovation, for example, the knowledge used by a researcher in the economics profession. The framework has been developed to address...

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from the rest of the world . The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...