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

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

of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …

We consider the parallel developments in the economics of agglomeration and the economics of networks. We explore the … complentarities between the productivity benefits of agglomeration and those of network linkages, arguing that networks of actors …

-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …