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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224594
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196029
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age
Paunov, Caroline; Guellec, Dominique; El-Mallakh, Nevine; … - 2019
patent applications to the European Patent Office, with the top five (Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco, Higashiosaka and Paris … technology patent applications are more concentrated in top cities than applications in other technology fields. In the United … States, which has led digital technology deployment, the concentration of patent applications in top cities increased more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168905
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329168
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Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
geographic concentration of patents for the period 2000-2014. There is also no general trend that inventors in large cities have … more patents than in rural areas (scaling). Hence, while agglomeration economies of large cities may offer advantages for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389630
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Does successful innovation require large urban areas? Germany as a counterexample
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to such theories. We argue that a main force behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389631
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721624