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Leipzig’s Municipal Job Agency
Plöger, Jörg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
Among other areas such as housing and urban renewal, economic development was seen as a key factor in the recovery in Leipzig. The City Department of Economic Development and the Economic Initiative Mitteldeutschland, a lobby group representing large regional employers, designed a cluster...
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The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm
Börner, Lars; Ritsch, Albrecht - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich>; … - 2008
Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870503
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Quantifying the Contribution of Technological Change to Economic Growth in Different Eras: A Review of the Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...
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Competition and Innovation in 1950’s Britain
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
We find little support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of a positiverelationship between market power and innovation … viewed as arisinglargely from the difficulties of reaping the benefits of innovation rather thanfrom a failure to innovate …
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Transferring Technical Knowledge and Innovating in Europe, c.1200-1800
Epstein, Stephan R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
innovation under three headings: How was premodern technical knowledge stored to avoid loss? How were tacit, visual, verbal, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870946
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Bremen’s Innovation Policy
Plöger, Jörg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
Already in the early 1980s, city officials realised the challenge of structural change for Bremen. It was at this point that decisions were made to initiate a profound ‘change of direction’ in the economic focus of the city (Warsewa, 2006). In the past, Bremen’s economic fortunes had been...
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TRANSFORMING CITIES ACROSS EUROPE
Power, Anne T.; Plöger, Jörg; Winkler, Astrid - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
a high proportion ofmanufacturing jobs until the 1970s andwere internationally renowned for theirskills and innovation …
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Bremen City Report
Plöger, Jörg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social andpolitical dynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline,losing most of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...
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Tackling Difficult Estates
Richardson, Liz - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
charisma, innovation, leadership and flexibility;• community capacity and involvement;• starting points;• organisation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845705
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Financing Constraints and a Firm's Decision and Ability to Innovate:Establishing Direct and Reverse Effects
Hajivassiliou, Vassilis; Savignac, Frédérique - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2008
The paper analyzes the existence and impact of …financing constraints as a possiblyserious obstacle to innovation by … constraints and innovation decisions by …firms. Thepaper discusses the important issue of coherency conditions in such LDV models … asreverse interaction effects, leading us to conclude that binding …financing constraintsdiscourage innovation and at the same …
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