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Industrial clusters and economic integration : theoretic concepts and an application to the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg

Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim - 2009

Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...

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Generalized trust and regional innovation activity

Schild, Christopher-Johannes - 2012 - This version: August 2013

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional innovation activity. We aim to identify causal effects by using instrumental variables from climate and soil data, drawing from recent literature on the effects of climate on...

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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization

Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...

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Sources of knowledge and innovation : an empirical text at a Pan-European regional level

Barrutia, José M.; Echebarria, Carmen - 2013

Innovation performance seems to rely on efficiently integrating and extending different pieces of various types of knowledge emerging from diverse external sources. Different research traditions have stressed both formal (FSK) and informal sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance...

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Does the EU have a homogeneous urban structure area? : the role of agglomeration and the impact of (hypothetical) shocks on the EU urban structure

Modica, Marco - 2014

The urban structures between the Member States of the European Union is very different for historical, geographical, economic reasons. However, the population is spread across geographic areas in a way that, although continuously changing, is not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries...

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Determinants of convergence and disparities in Europe : innovation, entrepreneurship and the processes of clustering : 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2012 - Preliminary version

Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts of new economic growth theory. The aim of this paper is to combine an assessment of innovative and entrepreneurial performance with the spatial distribution and functional...

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Does regional economic growth depend on proximity to urban centres?

Ahrend, Rudiger; Schumann, Abel - 2014

This paper analyses the spatial patterns of regional economic growth in Europe over the 1995 to 2010 period. It finds …

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Urban economic growth in Europe between 2001 and 2008 : gravitation or dispersion?

Neumann, Uwe; Budde, Rüdiger; Ehlert, Christoph - 2012

This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …

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Trust and innovation activity in European regions : a geographic instrumental variables approach

Schild, Christopher-Johannes - 2012

Capital ; Trust ; Innovation ; Regional Economics ; Europe …

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Development, growth and decline in Europe : new patterns of economic convergence and divergence? : 53th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2013 - Preliminary version

in the overall economic trends in Europe in a regional context. In addition, in influence of innovation on the …

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