, without relying on agglomeration externalities. Clustering naturally follows from spinoffs locating near their parents. In our …

-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …

failed so far. This paper takes up a traditional production function approach which includes, in addition to labour and …

member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We exploit firm … Flemish SHC policy on productivity. …

failed so far. This paper takes up a traditional production function approach which includes, in addition to labour and …

, innovation, productivity and export performance augmented to take account for the role played by spatial agglomeration … links R&D capital to innovation output; the third focuses on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as determined by innovation …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

ability to absorb external knowledge in explaining innovation productivity for US metropolitan areas. Our measure of … absorptive capacity, derived from a knowledge flow model, has a positive and significant impact on innovation productivity. We …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …