Introduction : about the origin of local innovations / Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner and Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas -- Why are some cities more innovative than others? : an answer based on an interpretive concept / Hubert Heinelt and Georgios Terizakis -- Athens / Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas --...

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against...

That global networks provide positive externalities to participating firms is a well‑documented fact. Less is known about how the performance of non-participating firms, especially those that are small or medium-sized, changes with exposure to an increase in the presence of globally integrated...