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Why are some cities specialized and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban specialization and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of firms and people in them, change over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities...
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This Paper considers the financing of a research project under uncertainty about the time of completion and the probability of eventual success. The uncertainty about future success diminishes gradually with the arrival of additional funding. The entrepreneur controls the funds and can divert...
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. We consider a dynamic game in which firms improve both a new and a rival old technology while learning about the relative …
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We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the main source of the wage premium. Agglomeration economies are in general small, but are larger for workers with...
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approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … and learning. Thirdly, to provide methodological suggestions for how to apply such broadened interpretation of the …
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occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both … the links between creative industries, occupations, cities and innovation at the firm level. This paper addresses this gap … driver of innovation. We find no support for the hypothesis that urban creative industries firms are particularly innovative …
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competing on innovation in the global value chain; special attention is paid to clustered SMEs. By comparing 4 clusters in …This paper is concerned with unpacking the role of clusters in supporting the move from competing on low-costs to … different industries in Asia, we highlight significant differences in the learning paths of clustered SMEs. The paper …
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. Local peer effects appear as important in explaining local clusters of entrepreneurs, and imply a local feedback-effect in …
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of regional innovation systems in the landscape of evolutionary economic geography. It argues that the current emphasis … a renewed regional innovation systems approach, the article presents a policy intervention framework for constructing …
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