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epistemology that arose in the context of theorising interdisciplinary research and provides a summary of how these were dealt with …
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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This article provides new insights into how geography shapes spatiotemporal variations in the propensity of actors from particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in addition to bilateral exports and outward...
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Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into … knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …
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of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …
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This paper re-examines Hayek’s insights into the problem of knowledge in markets, and argues that his analysis remains … coordinating transactions wherever knowledge is dispersed and innovation renders the future uncertain—remains a potent explanation … and tacit knowledge has important but widely ignored implications for the contemporary use of statistics in financial risk …
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diffusion of regional knowledge spillovers. These complementary approaches have, however, rarely been combined. Important … regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the … influence of internal factors and external knowledge and institutional flows on regional economic growth. The empirical results …
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