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 …

extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach its beneficiaries. We find that IDB …

'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 …

among firms that undertake innovation through knowledge use rather than through knowledge generation. …The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely …

"One of the most robust findings emerging from studies of industrial agglomeration is the rise in productivity that … localization economies are largely not the product of knowledge spillovers"--Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site …