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Firm growth and the spatial impact of geolocated external factors : empirical evidence for German manufacturing firms
Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - 2011
In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...
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Agglomeration of knowledge in the German regional economy
Krenz, Astrid - 2016
This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German economy. Our analysis takes individual-level data from the German socioeconomic panel (GSOEP) and combines them with the knowledge information for different jobs that comes from...
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China : prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015 - Draft version
Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...
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Shared knowledge and the coagglomeration of occupations
Gabe, Todd M.; Abel, Jaison R. - 2013
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...
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Microgeography of innovation in the city : location patterns of innovative firms in Berlin
Rammer, Christian; Kinne, Jan; Blind, Knut - 2016
This paper investigates the micro-location pattern of innovative and non-innovative firms in Berlin using detailed information on the firms' addresses and their local environment. The study employs a unique, representative panel data set of Berlin-based firms from manufacturing and services...
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Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Flows and Innovation in US Metropolitan Areas
Silberman, Jonathan; Mukherji, Nivedita - 2013
High growth and progressive regions possess a culture that promotes innovation. Innovation depends on a region’s ability to use its own existing knowledge and knowledge generated elsewhere. This paper demonstrates the importance of the ability to absorb external knowledge in explaining...
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Source of the Economics of Agglomeration : A Bibliographical Review
Manrique, Olga Lucia - 2007
economics of agglomeration, particularly those related to the causes of such economics. The pioneering work of G.Duranton and D … theoretical work and summarised the microeconomic mechanisms of the economics of agglomeration into three categories: sharing …
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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
van Oort, Frank G.; Stam, Erik - 2005
Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both … the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
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R&D investment dynamics in agglomerations under weak appropriability regimes : evidence from Indian R&D labs
Lamin, Anna; Ramos, Miguel A. - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 3, pp. 604-621
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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