<em>Decreasing weight of manufacturing industry in Europe? Between terziarization and opening of the value chains …</em> - This paper aims at understanding the decreasing weight of the manufacturing industry in the main European countries. The … manufacturing firms’ attempt to increase their competitiveness on the international markets. In so doing they tend to focus more and …

We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area … the manufacturing employment share, the increased spatial concentration of services, the growth in service productivity …

climate change mitigation objectives. The analysis focuses on investments in infrastructure and equipment in the manufacturing …

manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity … manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through …

manufacturing, before presenting new evidence using establishment-level data on production, service and R&D activity for the United …

a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …

(1953–2007), for the industrial sector (1953–2007) and for manufacturing (1985–2007). The capital input estimates for … industry and manufacturing are also broken down by thirty regions. The paper makes a systematic attempt to apply SNA (System of …