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Innovation and spatial inequality in Europe and USA
Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Innovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow … population surveys for European regions and US Cities, the paper finds, after controlling for other potential factors, good … evidence of a link between innovation and inequality in European regions, but only limited evidence of such a relationship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083831
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GROWTH AND DECLINE OF URBAN AREAS IN ROMANIA
ANTONESCU, Daniela; POPA, Florina - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 34 (2012) 1(43), pp. 131-156
The urbanisation process in Romania followed a variable growth trajectory (that intensified), stagnation and, in the last period, a slightly decreasing trend. Thus, the years between the sixties to the nineties were characterised by marked development, concomitantly with population increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555025
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721624
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2014
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729220
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The Impact of Gravity-Weighted Knowledge Spillovers on Productivity in Manufacturing
Robbins, Carol - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 31 (2006) 1, pp. 45-60
This paper tests for localized knowledge spillovers from out-of-state innovations in U.S. manufacturing from 1977 to 1997. The source of these spillovers is innovations categorized into six technologies based on U.S. patent classes and patent data. Using a gravity-weighting for out-of-state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005715344
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Design and Test of an Index to Measure the Capability of Cities in Latin America to Create Knowledge-Based Enterprises
Tiffin, Scott; Jimenez, Gonzalo - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 31 (2006) 1, pp. 61-76
An index has been created, based on the experience of a prior version tested in 5 cities in Chile, and from an … extensive literature search. Its purpose is to rank cities in Latin America on their capability to create knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068134
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The Economic Development of Administrativ-Teritorial Areas in the Context of Actual Administrative Teritorial Organisation in Romania
Szasz, Melinda - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 8 (2008), pp. 245-250
Romanian administrative-territorial organisation has two levels. First level is formed by communes and cities. The second level … Romanian peoples’ needs. The real questions regarding administrative-territorial reorganisation is to create regions and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403695
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The Multi-level Governance of Science Policy in England
Perry, Beth - In: Regional Studies 41 (2007) 8, pp. 1051-1067
Perry B. (2007) The multi-level governance of science policy in England, Regional Studies 41, 1051-1067. This article … outlines contemporary changes in the governance of science policy in England and assesses the recent emergence of regional … creation through the regional science and industry councils. Complementary policy functions have developed at national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008603474
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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126607
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The fine microstructure of knowledge creation dynamics: reporting further advances
Berliant, Marcus; Fujita, Masahisa - European Regional Science Association - 2014
, heterogeneity of researchers, and cities or regions play? Using our framework, first we study how a researcher creates a new … multiple cities or regions. In the last NARSA meetings in Atlanta, we presented preliminary results on the same topic. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075830