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The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms

Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

also shows how agglomeration economies affect MNEs and non-MNEs. …

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Agglomeration and Productivity - evidence from firm-level data

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing … returns, has analyzed this question with aggregated spatial data. This paper estimates the relationship between agglomeration … learning effect in that agglomeration enhances firms’ productivity. Third, the role of agglomeration phenomena does not seem to …

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Who says life is over after 55? Entrepreneurship and an aging population

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Several studies confirm a positive inverted U-shaped relationship between age and entrepreneurship. This paper analyses if this statement is true also for Sweden. By focusing on those above the age of 50, this paper adds knowledge about how individuals close to their retirement act in terms of...

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Risk or Resilience? The Role of Trade Integration and Foreign Ownership for the Survival of German Enterprises during the Crisis 2008-2010

Wagner, Joachim; Gelübcke, John P. Weche - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This is the first study of the link between internationalization and firm survival during the 2008/2009 crisis in Germany, a country which was hit relatively lightly compared to other countries. Moreover, it is the first study which looks at the role of importing, exporting and FDI...

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Exploration of Wisdom Ages: Firm survival

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Studies confirm a tendency where elder individuals are more prone to become entre¬preneurs. Their motives are numerous ranging from feeling social included to maintain the same income level. Interesting as such, this paper contributes to the existing literature by taking this one step further...

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Parsing the Menagerie of Agglomeration and Network Externalities

Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

Externalities have for a long time been perceived as awkward cases that are alien to well-structured economic analyses. During recent decades ideas inherited from Marshall and others have regained interest in the analysis of specialisation and trade, urban formation and growth as well as...

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Human Capital, Talent, Agglomeration and Regional Growth

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Stough, Roger R. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

?, ii) How does this agglomeration affect the location of different types of economic activities?, and iii) How does this … agglomeration affect regional growth? There are different underlying agglomerative forces creating spatially concentrated increasing … spare time activities. One major reason for the agglomeration of production in urban regions and metro¬politan areas today …

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Agglomeration Dynamics of Business Services

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

areas as well as between urban areas in the same agglomeration and between urban areas in different agglomerations. This …

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That’s Entertainment - scale and scope economies in the location and clustering of the entertainment economy

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

It is argued that the introduction of new technology is leading toward the decentralization of the production and consumption of creative products and industries. But creative industries and workers may benefit from being around large markets, access to shared labor, network interactions and...

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Knowledge & Innovation in Space

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; R. Stough, Roger - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

The purpose of this working paper is to provide a short overview of actual topics in contemporary research concerned with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to understand the current changes of the global and their...

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