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RETAIL CITY: Does accessibility to shops explain place attractiveness?

Öner, Özge - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper explores the role of retail as an amenity and how it contributes to place attractiveness. In this investigation the impact of accessibility to shops on average house prices is investigated using a fixed effect estimation. The analysis use data for Swedish municipalities through the...

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RETURNS TO LOCATION IN RETAIL: Investigating the relevance of market size and regional hierarchy

Öner, Özge - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

highly heterogeneous. In order to capture the urban-periphery interaction in retail markets, an accessible market potential … between urban and peripheral retail markets, as well as between different types of retailing activities. Market size in close … proximity is found to play an important role for stores selling goods for frequent purchase, whereas the relevant market extends …

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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

speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …

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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

This paper is an introductory overview highlighting some of the current knowledge as regards three critical questions related to the emerging knowledge economy: i) Why does human capital and talent tend to agglomerate in large urban regions?, ii) How does this agglomeration affect the location...

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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

-gions. This means that the variation in goods and services available in the market will be smaller, once again forcing the new …

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Internal and External Knowledge – Innovation of Export Varieties.

Johansson, Börje; Johansson, Sara; Wallin, Tina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Firms in local industries maintain their capability to generate innovations by simultaneously exploiting internal and external knowledge resources. The paper introduces the notion variety triplet to distinguish individual export varieties, where a triplet is a unique combination of a firm, a...

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Exploration of Wisdom Ages: Firm survival

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Studies confirm a tendency where elder individuals are more prone to become entre¬preneurs. Their motives are numerous ranging from feeling social included to maintain the same income level. Interesting as such, this paper contributes to the existing literature by taking this one step further...

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Determinants of self-employment among commuters and non-commuters

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the determinants of the decision to become self-employed among commuters and non-commuters. In the entrepreneurship literature it is claimed that the rich-ness and quality of an individual’s business, professional and social networks play an im-portant role for the...

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Who says life is over after 55? Entrepreneurship and an aging population

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Several studies confirm a positive inverted U-shaped relationship between age and entrepreneurship. This paper analyses if this statement is true also for Sweden. By focusing on those above the age of 50, this paper adds knowledge about how individuals close to their retirement act in terms of...

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Determinants of entrepreneurship. Is it all about the individual or the region?

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

It is well established at whatever spatial level studied that economic actors exhibit a strong tendency to cluster. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is certainly not a satisfactory state-of-the-art. It is...

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