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Identifying revealed comparative advantages in an EU regional context

Cordes, Alexander; Gehrke, Birgit; Römisch, Roman; … - 2015

[Introduction ...] Overall, this report is structured as follows: the next chapter (2) briefly outlines the relevance of regional trade indicators for determining the competitiveness of a region. In chapter 3, the methodology for the calculation of regional trade performance indicators is...

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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Regionalökonomie und Finanzierung kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen: Ansätze zur Erklärung eines Ost-West-Gefälles

Neuberger, Doris - 1999

kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen (KMU) eine Schlüsselrolle. Die deutschen Banken sehen sich oft dem Vorwurf … Sterberaten von KMU, um die Ergebnisse für die Erklärung räumlich unterschiedlicher Fi-nanzierungsbedingungen am Beispiel eines …

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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2013

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den IKT-Sektor in Nordrhein-Westfalen anhand von Sonderauswertungen der amtlichen Statistik des Umsatzsteuerpanels sowie der Daten einer eigenen Unternehmensbefragung. Dabei erweist sich dieses Bundesland als Standort mit einem weitgehend prosperierenden...

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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings

Heinecke, Bastian - 2002

This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...

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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective

Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003

Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …

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The regional dimension of knowledge transfers: a behavioral approach

Broekel, Tom; Binder, Martin - 2006

Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...

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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru

Escobal, Javier; Torero, Máximo - 2003

In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and landscapes, with rainforests, high mountain ranges and dry deserts, the geographical context may not be all that matters, but it could be very significant in explaining regional...

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Generalized trust and regional innovation activity

Schild, Christopher-Johannes - 2013

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional innovation activity. We aim to identify causal effects by using instrumental variables from climate and soil data, drawing from recent literature on the effects of climate on...

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What makes Napa Napa? The roots of success in the wine industry

Hira, Anil; Swartz, Tim - In: Wine Economics and Policy 3 (2014) 1, pp. 37-53

California is world-renowned for the ability to produce world class quality wine. At the center of this achievement is the development of Napa as a premier wine producing region. We examine the sources of Napa's success by testing factors from leading industrial location theories against...

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