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The Origin and Location of Entrants in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry
Buenstorf, Guido; Klepper, Steven - 2004
entrants and analyze the factors underlying their creation and location at the county level. Our findings suggest it was the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327341
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305665
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Location Modelling and the Localization of Portuguese Manufacturing Industries
Guimarães, Paulo; Figueiredo, Octávio; Woodward, Douglas - 2004
’ location decisions. JEL classification: C25, R12, R39 …
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
) on business services profitability and location choice. We apply a semiparametric Poisson sorting model allowing for firm …, not necessarily business services firms, so diversity is negatively related to location decisions. Almost all firms either …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571073
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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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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
Observers of Silicon Valley's computer cluster report that employees move rapidly between competing firms, but evidence supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent and resources toward firms with superior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272888
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Dynastic Entrepreneurship, Entry, and Non-Compete Enforcement
Rauch, James E. - 2015
We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …, optimal entry of original firms and all subsequent employee spinoffs is achieved, despite the fact that the original firm can … increases the rate of spinoffs from original firms. Indeed, if employers have all the bargaining power vis-à-vis their employees …
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