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Do regional systems of innovation matter?
Fritsch, Michael - 2003
The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...
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Location Modelling and the Localization of Portuguese Manufacturing Industries
Guimarães, Paulo; Figueiredo, Octávio; Woodward, Douglas - 2004
localization of economic activity. We critically review this index and build on the McFadden’s Random Utility (Profit) Maximization … and allows us to evaluate how the localization measure behaves with changes in the systematic forces that drive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318726
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Do universities affect firms' location decisions? Evidence from Spain
Garcia, Javier; Parellada, Marti; Duch, Néstor - 2010
The challenges posed by globalization have led to a rapid increase in the demand for higher education and, at the same time, many countries are earmarking more resources and efforts to foster their population's skills level and knowledge. Nowadays higher education is playing a crucial role in...
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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 Origin and Location of Entrants in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry
Buenstorf, Guido; Klepper, Steven - 2004
During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...
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Endogenous or exogenous innovation development in industry on regional level?
Świadek, Arkadiusz - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 70-85
At the moment endogenous growth theory has become increasingly popular in the world of science, particularly in developed countries. This article aims to show, for two regions case, the needs and sense of applying this theory in the polish regions. Due to the low level of economic development of...
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Microgeography of innovation in the city: Location patterns of innovative firms in Berlin
Rammer, Christian; Kinne, Jan; Blind, Knut - 2016
This paper investigates the micro-location pattern of innovative and non-innovative firms in Berlin using detailed information on the firms' addresses and their local environment. The study employs a unique, representative panel data set of Berlin-based firms from manufacturing and services...
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Firm-worker matching in industrial clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimaraes, Paulo; Woodward, Douglas - 2011
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimation and analysis of models with...
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Economies of Scale in der Produktion versus Diseconomies im Transport: Zum Strukturwandel in der Milchindustrie
Boysen, Ole; Schröder, Carsten - 2005
In this article, we simulate the concentration process within the German dairy sector employing a sector?wide optimization model. As a result, we get cost minimizing structures of the dairy sector for various time horizons depending on varying levels of transportation costs. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324345
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Testing for Clustering of Industries - Evidence from micro geographic data
Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - 2011
We present a new statistical method that describes the localization patterns of industries in a continuous space. The … method fulfils all five criteria for a spatial statistical test of localization proposed by Duranton and Overman (2005) and … improves them with respect to the significance of its results. Additionally, our test allows inference to the localization of …
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