To study the detailed location patterns of industries, and particularly the tendency for industries to cluster relative … to overall manufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localization. In contrast to previous studies, our approach …% confidence level, (ii) localization takes place mostly at small scales below 50 kilometres, (iii) the degree of localization is …

examined, the effectiveness and desirability of franchising is assessed, as are the present administration of the radio …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of ….’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using … innovation and that both STI and DUI-modes of interaction matter. However, it also shows that DUI modes of interaction outside …

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …