James A. (2005) Demystifying the role of culture in innovative regional economies, Regional Studies 39 , 1197-1216. Within the regional learning and innovation literature, the precise impact of regional 'culture' on firms' competitive performance remains unspecified. In response, this paper...

In seinem Beitrag zeigt Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, dass die Premiumbranche den Autostandort Deutschland stabilisiert. Das weltweite Premiumgeschäft ist die Domäne der deutschen Autokonzerne. Neue Impulse, wie etwa die Kategorie kleiner Premiumfahrzeuge, haben dem...

Seit geraumer Zeit wird dem Standort Deutschland eine Unterversorgung mit Wagniskapital diagnostiziert. Die Etablierung eines Wachstumssegments an der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse und die Unterstützung auf junge Hochtechnologieunternehmen spezialisierter Beteiligungsunternehmen gehören...

Using 4 years of data from 37 American cities and 6 high technology groupings we present the first estimates of University R&D spillover effects on employment at this level of disaggregation, while controlling for prior innovations and state fixed effects. Wages and employments are strongly...

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of country and technological intensity in the choice of compensation policies, and the influence of such policies on market performance and turnover in high and low technological intensity firms. Using a survey of 602 large firms in three...

ECHEVERRI-CARROLL E., H UNNICUTT L., and HANSEN N. (1998) Do asymmetric networks help or hinder small firms' ability to export?, Reg. Studies 32, 721-733. Studies of industrial districts in Europe and the US and of networked firms in Japan recognize the positive correlation between symmetric...

The complex nature of ‘international outsourcing’ makes it difficult to quantify its employment and broader impacts on national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of ‘offshoring’ by US firms is scant, rendering analyses of its economic impacts as...

This paper investigates the reasons behind what has been termed the ‘Oulu Phenomenon‘ in Northern Finland. Over the past two to three decades the city of Oulu has transformed its economy from dependency on timber, paper and pulp industries into one based on High Technology, notably,...