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regions through various networks. The national infrastructure and transport networks are often organised with the metropolitan …
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By utilising a Swedish unique, matched employer-employee dataset that has been pooled with firm-level patent application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm innovation output, as measured by firm patent...
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This paper provides an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge...
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In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship literature, it is generally assumed that individuals who start a firm start it where they live. We question this general assumption and show that this does not hold for commuters....
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produces research of higher quality. However, the spatial distribution of academic networks and innovative networks are not … innovation networks are not very common. In addition, the pattern of innovative networks is very fragmented. Our results indicate … that innovation networks are more likely to exist in densely populated areas with a diversified industry. Face …
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. Specifically, the paper dwells on the role of metropolitan regions as nodes in national and international networks and as nodes of …
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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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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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can have ‘bad’ consequences if bad actors such as criminals perform it). Depending on the types of networks and the norms … creativity by dynamic networks and/or values and attitudes that promote experimentation, but social capital can also counteract … creativity by rigid networks and values that support status quo. Efforts to defend status quo might be creative in a sense, but …
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and social networks play an im-portant role for the decision to become self-employed. People that commute between … networks than non-commuters, since they can develop network links both in the locality where they live and in the locality … commuters in terms of the role of networks for becoming self-employed. On the one hand, we find for non-commuters that living …
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