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A major characteristic of the economic development in European and North America during the past 10-15 years is a fast expansion of the producer-service sector. This paper considers the location dynamics of two categories of firms: contact-intensive producer-service suppliers and other firms,...
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institutional factors that reduce unemployment. Accessibility factors such as inter-regional transport connectivity and local access …
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This study examines how firms’ internal and external knowledge sources affect the introduction of new export products with regard to value, number, average unit price and average quantity. Previous studies of this kind suggest that firms’ export performance is influenced by internal...
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Accessibility has for many years been a widely used tool in transportation research. Many definitions have been … need for investments in the transport systems. However, accessibility measures can be regarded as the spatial counterparts … different spatial units. We will in this paper against this background show that accessibility is an underused analytical and …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between human capital endowments and the structure of regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity, requiring human capital inputs, the core hypothesis...
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Accessibility to knowledge and local service markets can be assumed to explain regional growth performance. The role of … between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We … accessibility to labour and to purchasing power. We estimate first a cross-section model by using OLS. Second we employ a panel data …
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can be interpreted as evidence of spatial dependence. Additionally, the paper advocates the use of the accessibility … concept for spatial weights. Accessibility is related to spatial interaction theory and can be motivated theoretically by … the accessibility variables are significantly different from zero in the case of modelled effects. The rejection frequency …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The … research question we ask in this paper is the following: can the variation between regions in knowledge accessibility in a … can be modelled using an accessibility approach. An advantage of modelling the interaction potentials at different spatial …
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be measured using accessibility measures. Furthermore, accessibility measures can be used to model interaction …
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knowledge flows from R&D activities. These knowledge transfers are modeled by accessibility variables, which deduce the presence … of spatial interaction. The impacts of regional R&D accessibility on regions’ revealed comparative advantages in high … empirical work show significant positive effects of human capital and R&D accessibility on the revealed comparative advantages …
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