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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic … global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge services. Based on prior research on clusters and services offshoring … commoditization of knowledge work on KSC growth: It is proposed that KSCs attract most projects if service commoditization is medium …
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The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … whose intensities are dependent on the similarity of knowledge background of the interacting individuals: First, the …
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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
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This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …
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/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
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This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … - ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …
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