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Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case … studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries … exclusive to creative industries firms and seems to be largely due to firms in medium sized, rather than large, cities. The …
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In this paper, we study whether industrial relatedness affects firms’ fixed investment behaviour, and whether this relationship is linked also to the operational and organizational proximity between banks and local economies. By estimating different specifications of a dynamic investment...
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One of the key benefits of cities is that they allow the exchange of knowledge and information between economic actors … link between cities and innovation. …
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distribution and the evolution of knowledge complexity across U.S. cities from 1975 to 2004. We build on the 2-mode structural … technological structure of 366 MSAs with the 2-mode network that connects cities to the 438 primary (USPTO) technology classes in … which they have Relative Technological Advantage (RTA). The complexity of the knowledge structure of cities is based on the …
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We study the resilience of cities by analyzing their relative capacity to sustain the production of technological … from 1975 to 2002, we analyze the vulnerability and response of cities to technological crises. We define episodes of … duration of technological crises vary considerably across American cities. We test whether the technological knowledge bases of …
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Klepper’s theory of industry clustering based on organizational reproduction and inheritance through spinoffs challenged the Marshallian view on industry clustering. The paper provides an assessment of Klepper’s theoretical and empirical work on industry clustering. We explore how ‘new’...
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The development of new industries demands access to local capabilities. Little attention has yet been paid to the role of spillovers from neighbor regions for industrial diversification, nor has the role of network linkages between neighbor regions been investigated. As the spread of...
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Creative industries have become a priority sector for economic development and to exit from the actual economic crisis. Nevertheless, creative industries includes heterogeneous industries and it is not enough investigated how variety and diversity work to favour knowledge spillovers and...
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The debate on Russia’s innovation performance has paid little attention to the role of geography. This paper addresses this gap by applying an ‘augmented’ regional knowledge function approach to examine the territorial dynamics of innovation in Russia. The empirical results suggest that...
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The present paper investigates the role of decentralisation for the adaptability of production networks in clusters. It develops a simulation model able to test to what extent decentralised, networked clusters with many small firms (Silicon Valley) can be more adjustable than those composed of...
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