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R&D and absorptive capacity : theory and empirical evidence
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
industry-level data. R&D affects both innovation and the assimilation of others’ discoveries (‘absorptive capacity’). Long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884730
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Technological diversification
Koren, Miklos; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Economies at early stages of development are often shaken by abrupt changes in growth rates, whereas in advanced economies growth rates tend to be relatively stable. To explain this pattern, we propose a theory of technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928680
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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
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One third of the world's growth and inequality
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746699
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Concentration, agglomeration and the size of plants
Lafourcade, Miren; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper investigates whether the geographic distribution of manufacturing activities depends on the size of plants. Using Italian data, we find, as in Kim [Kim, S., 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic concentration of economic activities: the trends in U.S. regional manufacturing...
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Diversity and specialisation in cities: why, where and when does it matter?
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
Why are some cities specialised and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities...
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From sectoral to functional urban specialisation
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms'' organisation and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...
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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
In this paper we make use of a matched employer-employee database for Italy to look at the spatial distribution of wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of interaction among economic agents, both individuals and...
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