resonate with the idea that urban economies provide a mix of industrial diversity and specialisation. A location in a within …As cities increasingly become centers of economic growth and innovation, there is a need to understand their inner …-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …

This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering … clusters of business services firms. A standard deviation increase in business services specialisation leads to on average a 40 …, not necessarily business services firms, so diversity is negatively related to location decisions. Almost all firms either …

occupation, and (ii) the industry they have been working in previously. Estimates show that diversity of occupational experience … is positive for labor productivity, but the diversity of industry experience is not. When distinguishing between related … and unrelated diversity, the relatedness of occupational experience is positive for labor productivity, while unrelated …

Balanced Growth Path (BGP), and compare it to the path under market competition. In the presence of externalities, markets fail …

The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what … proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as innovation performance indicators, and exploits original data regarding … controlling for the existence of innovation lags. Parks' first mover disadvantages also emerge, as well as non-negligible matching …

whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and …

In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we … differentiate between industry diversity and human capital diversity. In order to measure human capital diversity we construct a … evidence that regions with higher degrees of human capital diversity exhibit higher GDP-per-capita and employment growth, as …

propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …