co-existence of high levels of buzz and many pipelines may provide firms located in outward looking and lively clusters …The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge … the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost …

need to be more careful with the assumption of technological knowledge spillovers in innovative clusters. The significant …A widespread assumption in economic geography and the economics of innovation is that firms located in clusters benefit … from territorial learning and knowledge spillovers. However, it remains unclear to what extent these benefits actually …

This paper argues that the existence of knowledge-intensive firms pose puzzelments for the contractual theories of the … firm. For example, in knowledge-intensive firms physical assets are widely absent, the nature of employment relations and … asset-ownership are much less clear compared to industrial firms. Although knowledge-intensive firms account for a growing …

Conventions on local economies. Our analysis from 1970-2005 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the country, including all … cities that have hosted one of the national conventions during this time period, finds that the presence of the Republican or …