Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most … capital as propensity towards civicness and prosocial behaviour that facilitates the circulation of nonredundant knowledge … innovative performance after controlling for ‘traditional’ knowledge inputs (R&D and human capital). In addition, instrumental …

cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. However, agglomeration raises the price of immobile local …

the agglomeration of increasing returns activities. When workers migrate towards locations with more firms and higher real … wages, this intensifies agglomeration. When instead workers do not move across regions, further reductions in transport …

We develop a model in which the interaction between transport costs, increasing returns, and labour migration across … sectors and regions creates a tendency for urban agglomeration. Demand from rural areas favours urban dispersion. European …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning … knowledge or better access to international markets). These channels may be balanced by internal downsides (lower trust) and … information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team …

Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a … firm effect, with diversity at the firm level improving knowledge sourcing or ideas generation, and a city effect, where … innovation, nor do migrant-run firms in diverse cities appear particularly innovative. But urban context does matter and firms in …

that skyscrapers are caused by agglomeration economies and a prize for being the tallest, so a reputation effect. We aim to … sum of a within-building agglomeration effect and a reputation effect. Using semiparametric techniques, we disentangle … reputation effects from agglomeration effects and demonstrate that the reputation effect is substantial for tall buildings. For …