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The Technological Resilience of U.S. Cities
Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Rigby, David; Boschma, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
We study the resilience of cities by analyzing their relative capacity to sustain the production of technological knowledge in the face of adverse events. Using patent applications in 366 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States from 1975 to 2002, we analyze the vulnerability and...
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Institutions and Diversification: Related versus Unrelated Diversification in a Varieties of Capitalism framework
Boschma, Ron; Capone, Gianluca - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
literatures, the paper proposes that institutions have an impact on the direction of the diversification process, in particular on … presence of institutions that focus more on ‘non-market’ coordination in the domains of labor relations, corporate governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942927
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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013
Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010639250
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A theory on the co-evolution of seaports with application to container terminal development in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta
Jacobs, Wouter; Notteboom, Theo - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
How do seaports evolve in relation to each other? Recent studies in port economics and transport geography focused on how supply chain integration has structurally changed the competitive landscape in which individual ports and port actors operate. Port regionalization has been addressed as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547922
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The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography
Boschma, Ron; Martin, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478245
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Quality of government and innovative performance in the regions of Europe
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Di-Cataldo, Marco - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
Although it has frequently been argued that the quality of institutions affects the innovative potential of a territory …, the link between institutions and innovation remains a black box. This paper aims to shed light on how institutions shape … European Union (EU). The results of the analysis – which are robust to controlling for the endogeneity of institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736858
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid-1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...
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The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography
Boschma, Ron; Frenken, Koen - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011
role of institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography, and we relate this to the way Institutional Economic Geography … tends to view institutions. From this discussion, a number of new research challenges are derived. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773959
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Related Variety, Global Connectivity and Institutional Embeddedness: Internet Development in Beijing and Shanghai Compared
Zhang, Jun - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011
This paper contributes to the Evolutionary Economic Geography literature by employing the conceptualization of Ôrelated varietyÕ to compare the emerging internet industry in ChinaÕs two largest city-regions: Beijing and Shanghai. Official website registration records, Alexa internet traffic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009142620
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When migrants rule: the legacy of mass migration on economic development in the US
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
This paper examines the extent to which the distinct settlement pattern of migrants arriving in the US during the big migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where they settled and whether this legacy can be traced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568140