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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2011

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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Family business and regional development

Basco, Rodrigo (contributor); Stough, Roger (contributor); … - 2021

experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced …

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Exploring the economic geography of Ireland

Morgenroth, Edgar - 2008

Only a few research papers have analysed the spatial distribution of economic activity in Ireland. There are a number of reasons for this, not least the fact that comprehensive data on the location of economic activity by sector across all sectors has not been available at the highly...

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Home market effects and the single-sector Melitz model

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin - 2011

Increasing-returns-to-scale imperfect competition trade models predict a more than proportionate relationship between the larger country's share in world endowments and its share in producing firms: the so called home market effect (HME). While this result plays a key role in empirical testing,...

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Emerging multinationals, international knowledge flows and economic geography: A research agenda

Dohse, Dirk; Hassink, Robert; Klaerding, Claudia - 2012

One of the most significant changes in the global economy today is the strong increase in outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) from emerging economies to industrialised countries. Whereas investment in less developed countries is often motivated by the sourcing of natural resources and...

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Home market effect hypothesis in a multi-country world

Bourtchouladze, Nana - 2007

The home market effect (HME) is commonly defined as a more than proportional supply response to a demand shock. Recent theoretical literature, however, shows that predictions from the traditional twocountry framework do not always survive in multi-country settings. This is because 'third'...

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Spatial Disparities in Economic Structural Change in Central and Eastern Europe During Integration

Szakálné Kanó, Izabella; Vas, Zsófia; Lengyel, Imre; … - In: Intereconomics 60 (2025) 2, pp. 126-134

Understanding the structural change in catching-up regions and the spatial distribution of economic sectors is essential for designing comprehensive policy strategies to promote balanced economic development. This study examines the economic restructuring of the 11 central and eastern European...

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Dienstleistungen in Ostdeutschland: Beschäftigungsdynamik geringer als in Westdeutschland

Brenke, Karl; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Geppert, Kurt - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 17, pp. 2-11

Der ostdeutsche Dienstleistungssektor hat seit 1995 kontinuierlich Beschäftigung aufgebaut und somit erheblich zur Stabilisierung der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung beigetragen. Allerdings blieben Leistungskraft und Wachstum hinter der Entwicklung in Westdeutschland zurück. Deutliche Defizite -...

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Economic geography: Past, present and future

Bagchi-Sen, Sharmistha (contributor); … - 2006

The impact of economic geography both within and beyond the wider field of geography has been constrained in the past by its own limitations. Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its...

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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004

This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...

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