, colocation of R&D and manufacturing within an enterprise group in a region (internal agglomeration) appears to be a significant … affects the location and size of enterprise groups' R&D activities in different FA-regions. We find that enterprise groups … concentrate their R&D to the same regions, which are also regions with significant academic R&D (external agglomeration). Moreover …

minimum wage hike not only shrinks young and low-productivity firms but also lowers incentives to innovate, resulting in lower …

two-step procedure. First, we look at the relevance of spatial levers, namely whether the agglomeration of EIs induces EIs … importance of spatial levers, the role of agglomeration turns out to be fairly local in nature: we find that spillovers are … significantly inducing innovation within municipal boundaries. Regarding economic performances, firms' productivity is positively …

'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over-agglomeration …