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 … between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …

knowledge interactions. Accessibility to inter-regional company R&D has even a negative impact on new firm formation. …

changing regional characteristics and invariant self-organized response mechanisms. It is supported by empirical examples of … the invariant character of regional development and innovation phenomena, such as long-term population growth, export …

empirical tool in regional science with an underestimated potential. The paper contains several empirical examples where the …

This paper analyses the aspects of spatial economics that deals with innovation, regional specialization and dynamic … innovation at the industry and sector level. In the regional specialization part the infrastructure, regional economic milieus … endogenous specialization are subjects that are being treated. Regional dynamics consists of location dynamics in a system of …

-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector … on regional employment growth in the same sector and on other sectors. We find differences between different types of … start-ups. Knowledge-intensive start-ups seem to have larger effects on the regional economy. In particular, start-ups in …

i.e. clusters, benefit from. Functional regions have low intra-regional transaction and transportation cost and has … at various education levels. The importance of cluster and clustering has also been recognized at a national, regional …