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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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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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Will there be a concentration of alikes? The impact of labor market structure on industry mix in the presence of product market shocks

Stahl, Konrad O.; Walz, Uwe - 2001

We analyze determinants of regional industry mix and focus especially on the influence of labor market characteristics. By combining a labor market pooling argument with an argument involving the cost of switching a worker from one firm to another, we show that in the presence of product market...

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Geographic Concentration of Business Services Firms: A Poisson Sorting Model

Koster, Hans; van Ommeren, Jos N.; Rietveld, Piet - 2011

This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering) on business services profitability and location choice. We apply a semiparametric Poisson sorting model allowing for firm-specific effects. We find that for most firms,...

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The Role of Regional Knowledge Sources for Innovation: An Empirical Assessment

Slavtchev, Viktor; Fritsch, Michael - 2005

innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant. Differences in the effect on innovative output can be found …

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Universities and innovation in space

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2006

We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of … pure size is unimportant. Therefore, a policy that wants to promote regional innovation processes by building up …

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Generalized trust and regional innovation activity

Schild, Christopher-Johannes - 2013

innovation activity. We aim to identify causal effects by using instrumental variables from climate and soil data, drawing from … innovation by interregional knowledge spillovers is also tested. It is found that spatial clustering of innovation activity can … be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust. …

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Are EU regions ready to tackle climate change?

Cappellano, Francesco; Marques Santos, Anabela; Dotti, … - 2023

Technological Innovation and policy priorities to fight climate change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship …

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Growth and the Geography of Knowledge

Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, Frederic - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

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