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Tracing the spatial patterns of innovation determinants in regional economic performance
Olejnik, Alicja; Żółtaszek, Agata - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 87-108
the number of degrees of freedom. Our model shows that regions benefit economically from their locational spillovers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419344
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The geography of unconventional innovation
Berkes, Enrico; Gaetani, Ruben - 2019
Using a newly assembled dataset of U.S. patents, we show that overall innovation activity is less concentrated in high-density urban areas than commonly believed, but inventions based on atypical combinations of knowledge are indeed more prevalent in high-density cities. To interpret this...
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Related variety, unrelated variety, and regional growth : the role of absorptive capacity and entrepreneurship
Fritsch, Michael; Kubliņa, Sandra - 2016
This paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular, we analyze the role of regional absorptive capacity and new business formation for these effects. We find that West German regions benefit from both types of varieties. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580747
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The economic microgeography of diversity and specialization
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Wernberg, Joakim - 2017
As cities increasingly become centers of economic growth and innovation, there is a need to understand their inner workings and organization in greater detail. We use ge-coded firm-level panel data at the sub-city level to assess the long-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657494
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Knowledge accumulation in cities : the role of imitation and innovation
Assmann, Dirk; Stiller, Johannes - 2013
spillovers taking place in cities and to show how they affect the migration decision of individuals and the size of cities. We … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … knowledge spillovers on agglomeration forces. We believe that our model's insights on the microfoundations of different types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490631
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New economic geography reloaded : localized knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation
Christ, Julian P. - 2009
knowledge spillovers. The meta-study is complemented by bibliometric research. The paper ultimately concludes that the empirical … studies that are related to the concept of (localized) knowledge spillovers and spatial association have caused a fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485387
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Regional innovation systems of medical technology : a knowledge production function of cardiovascular research and funding in Europe
Vadia, Rucha; Blankart, Katharina - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 8 (2021) 2, pp. 57-81
We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely on the knowledge production function (KPF) framework that establishes the knowledge output of a region as a function of innovatory effort and other characteristics of that...
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University Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Proximity and Innovation : An Analysis of Patent Filings Across U.S. Counties
Zheng, Ping - 2016
propose a measure for university knowledge spillovers as a gauge for the importance of proximity to knowledge creation. Using … between knowledge spillovers and innovative activities as measured by patent filings. We use university research and … development (R&D) expenditures in STEM fields as the foundation for our metric of knowledge spillovers and a decay function to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980752
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Localized Knowledge Spillovers : Evidence from the Agglomeration of American R&D Labs and Patent Data
Buzard, Kristy - 2018
, and more. Assigning patents and citations to these clusters, we capture the geographic extent of knowledge spillovers … within them. Our tests show that the localization of knowledge spillovers, as measured via patent citations, is strongest at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935396
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Localized Knowledge Spillovers : Evidence from the Agglomeration of American R&D Labs and Patent Data
Buzard, Kristy - 2018
knowledge spillovers within these clusters. Jaffe, Trajtenberg, and Henderson (1993, hereafter JTH) provide an aggregate measure … of the importance of knowledge spillovers at either the state or metropolitan area level. However, much information is … lost regarding differences in the localization of knowledge spillovers in specific geographic areas. In this article, we …
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