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The long-run evolution of infrastructure services

Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014

This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and diffusion. Throughout history, the key role of the State is self-evident. Private sector involvement has waxed and waned over millennia, although at times it has been pivotal...

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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...

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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Urban agglomeration and firm innovation : evidence from Asia

Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi - 2020

This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms' innovation-related activities across 25 developing countries in Asia. We find firm innovation...

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Attraction or repulsion? : testing coagglomeration of innovation between firm and university

Rudkin, Simon; Ming He; Chen, Yang - 2020

Agglomeration theory supports and existing findings confirm the geographical proximity of similar firms and spatial attraction of firms to universities. In addition to that, we are able to identify whether universities as one type of innovative units are attracted by firm-type innovators and the...

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Development, growth and decline in Europe: New patterns of economic convergence and divergence?

Cornett, Andreas P.; Soerensen, Nils Karl - European Regional Science Association - 2013

structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …

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Does Connectivity Impact Innovation Performance in Rural Regions?

Wassmann, Pia; Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...

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