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Regional Productivity and Accessibility to Knowledge and Dense Markets

Karlsson, Charlie; Pettersson, Lars - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

Accessibility to knowledge and local service markets can be assumed to explain regional growth performance. The role of regional supply of services and educated labour with respect to regional development are stressed by many researchers. In this paper we make an empirical analysis using panel...

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The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms

Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

also shows how agglomeration economies affect MNEs and non-MNEs. …

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Human Capital, Talent, Agglomeration and Regional Growth

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Stough, Roger R. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

?, ii) How does this agglomeration affect the location of different types of economic activities?, and iii) How does this … agglomeration affect regional growth? There are different underlying agglomerative forces creating spatially concentrated increasing … spare time activities. One major reason for the agglomeration of production in urban regions and metro¬politan areas today …

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The trade-off between agglomeration forces and relative costs: EU versus the “world” Evidence from firm-level location data 1974-1998

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

The theoretical prediction of a trade-off between production costs and agglomeration economies advanced in recent “new … requires an increase by 26 percent in agglomeration to keep production levels unaltered. To our knowledge, this is the first …

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Agglomeration Dynamics of Business Services

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

areas as well as between urban areas in the same agglomeration and between urban areas in different agglomerations. This …

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That’s Entertainment - scale and scope economies in the location and clustering of the entertainment economy

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

It is argued that the introduction of new technology is leading toward the decentralization of the production and consumption of creative products and industries. But creative industries and workers may benefit from being around large markets, access to shared labor, network interactions and...

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A Spatial ICT Clusters in Sweden – An Empirical Method to Identify Necessary Conditions for Existence

Karlsson, Charlie; Mellander, Charlotta; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

An empirical method to identify the existence of a spatial cluster is proposed. The method, based upon regression analysis, offers researchers to categorise regions, municipalities, or cities with respect to their over- or under-representation in number of establishments and employment for any...

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Parsing the Menagerie of Agglomeration and Network Externalities

Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

Externalities have for a long time been perceived as awkward cases that are alien to well-structured economic analyses. During recent decades ideas inherited from Marshall and others have regained interest in the analysis of specialisation and trade, urban formation and growth as well as...

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Agglomeration and the Spatial Distribution of Creativity

Andersson, Roland; Quigley, John. M; Wilhelmsson, Mats - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

research facilities in stimulating regional patent output. Importantly, our results document the importance of agglomeration …

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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...

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