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Metropolitan Regions and Product Innovation

Bjerke, Lina; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

In smaller countries, the non-metropolitan regions are to a substantial degree linked together with the metropolitan regions through various networks. The national infrastructure and transport networks are often organised with the metropolitan region as the central hub. This creates a number of...

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Market potential, start-up size and the survival of new firms

Klaesson, Johan; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

firm to do more things within the firm. In addition, it is ex¬pected that there is a relationship between entry rate and …

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Market Potential and New Firm Formation

Grek, Jenny; Karlsson, Charlie; Klaesson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

significant impact on both entry of new firms and on firm exit. For the primary sector and the manufacturing sector this impact is … there is a strong negative impact on firm entry in all sectors. This is in line with what one could expect as there are …

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Determinants of Regional Entry and Exit in Industrial Sectors

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

regional determinants of entry and exit considering these findings. The empirical analysis is performed using data on Swedish … firm entry and exit rates for 1997-2001. It is shown that on average about 0.5 to 2.7 percent of the regional variation in … entry and exit rates remains to be explained, after controlling for differences in industrial structure, but that there is …

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Creative Destruction and Productivity – entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence

Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competiveness. This paper investigates if … entry of new firms influences productivity amongst incumbent firms, and the extent to which altered productivity can be … varies over time, what we refer to as a delayed entry effect. An immediate negative influence on productivity is followed by …

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Accessibility: a useful analytical and empirical tool in spatial economics – experiences from Sweden

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Accessibility has for many years been a widely used tool in transportation research. Many definitions have been suggested and researchers have constructed numerous mathematical formulations to measure its value to be able to evaluate the relationships between the nature of the transport systems...

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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...

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Sources of Persistence in Regional Start-Up Rates - evidence from Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Koster, Sierdjan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

The relationship between start-up rates and regional economic development has been studied rather extensively in recent years. Dynamics in start-up rates have however received considerably less attention. In this paper we analyze the persistence of start-up rates across Swedish regions over a...

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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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Agglomeration, Diversity and Regional Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Borgman, Benny - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the importance of the structure of agglomeration on productivity and growth. To accomplish this we will include the degree of co-agglomeration of similar industries as an explanatory variable in the empirical analysis, while simultaneously...

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