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Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration : evidence from Lombardy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2012
-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …
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The impacts of urban location on the involvement of knowledge-intensive services in international innovation collaboration
Herstad, Sverre; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2012
Research on territorial innovation systems has traditionally put a very strong emphasis on intra-economy collaborative linkages as they allow valuable tacit knowledge to flow between co-located firms and institutions. Frequent face-to-face contact between producers and demanding users combined...
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Services sectors' concentration : the European Union, Greece, and the New Economic Geography
Krenz, Astrid - 2013
The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors' concentration in the European Union based on employment data and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport sectors...
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Modeling services sectors' agglomeration within a new economic geography model
Krenz, Astrid - 2012
This study investigates whether services sectors’ agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713568
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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...
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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister
Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999
Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...
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Evaluation of the structure of the services sector in Brazil : a regional approach
Cardoso, Verônica Lazarini; Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro - 2014
The accelerated growth of the service sector is one of the characteristics of the actual pattern of global growth. In Brazil, it is possible to point to a move towards a 'service economy' following the global standard. However, it cannot say that Brazil is regionally services intensive, ie, the...
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The determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across European regions : paper prepared for the ERSA 2013 Congress, Palermo, 27-21 August
Castellani, Davide; Meliciani, Valentina; Mirra, L. - 2013
The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...
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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014
We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342539
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Modeling Services Sectors’ Agglomeration within a New Economic Geography Model
Krenz, Astrid - 2012
This study investigates whether services sectors' agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096618