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Trade liberalisation and global-scale forest transition

González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

worldwide level, in a trade liberalisation scenario. Our model has economic geography foundations: transport costs affect the …

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Start-up rates, Entrepreneurship Culture and the Business Cycle. Swedish patterns from national and regional data

Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to capture such phenomena, and refers in a general...

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Combining knowledge from different sources, channels and geographical scales

Grillitsch, Markus; Trippl, Michaela - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

The aim of this article is to examine conceptually and empirically how innovative firms combine knowledge (1) provided by different sources, (2) accessed at different spatial scales, and (3) acquired through different channels. We add to the conceptual debate by contrasting and synthesizing the...

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Technological competencies and firm performance: Analyzing the importance of internal and external competencies

Grillitsch, Markus; Nilsson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between technological competencies (TC) and firm performance. Theoretically, the importance of TC is well established and widely accepted. Therefore, it is surprising that a number of empirical studies have been unable to confirm a substantial positive...

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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations

Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and signiﬁcant...

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The Geography and Structure of Global Innovation Networks: A Knowledge Base Perspective

Liu, Ju; Chaminade, Cristina; Asheim, Bjørn - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012

This paper explores the geography and structure of global innovation networks (GINs) of two multinational companies …

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First Nature vs. Second Nature Causes: Industry Location and Growth in the Presence of an Open-Access Renewable Resource

González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper we present a model integrating characteristics of the New Economic Geography, the theory of endogenous …

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New facts for old debates: Farm size and productivity in US agriculture

Temel, Tugrul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in U.S. agriculture during 1982-92. A nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The estimations show that (i) in 1982 productivity per acre...

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Geography, Institutions and Human Development: A Cross-Country Investigation Using Bayesian Model Averaging

Malik, Sadia Mariam; Janjua, Yasin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the role of long standing institutions – identified through geography, disease ecology, colonial … institutions. Some of the other measures of climate and geography as well as those of colonial legacy are important as long as we … spending on health and education; fertility rates; and measures of health infrastructure, the importance of geography and …

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Family Firms and Regional Innovation Activity: Evidence from the German Mittelstand

Block, Joern; Spiegel, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Family firms are important not only for a region but for the economy as a whole. In particular, the long-term orientation and the local embeddedness of family firms suggest a positive effect on regional innovation activity. Yet, despite the widely acknowledged importance of family firms for the...

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