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This article investigates the impact of various agglomeration forces on employment and innovation for a sample of aeronautical cluster firms in Northern Germany and a control group of geographically dispersed aeronautical firms in other German regions. The findings suggest that employment growth...
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Through a study of the industrialization process in Queretaro, particularly in the case of the automotive industry, the intention is to contribute elements that will make it possible to corroborate the heterogeneity of the transition from Fordism to a new model. At the same time, by studying the...
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This article analyses the location patterns of the US aerospace industry by comparing the spatial behaviour of manufacturing and R&D functions. We find that these two functions follow different logics as R&D activities tend to concentrate in the northeast whilst assembling is mostly accomplished...
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This paper examines the strength of embedding systemic and institutional support,firm-level technological capabilities and the relationship between the two in Brazil, India and South Africa. Despite Brazil and South Africa enjoying stronger exposure to external markets, firms in these countries...
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The economic recession has had a huge negative impact on the car industry. The decline in car sales affects not only manufacturers themselves but also the considerable number of small and medium-sized businesses that depend directly on the car industry as suppliers and retailers. Thousands of...
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A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle …-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical … account of China’s rise, fall, and resurgence. We then discuss the stylized facts associated with China’s growth process and …
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Using data drawn from the 2007 and 2009 Istat ICT-PA surveys on 4471 Italian municipalities, we identify the technological, organizational, and contextual factors associated with the development of e-Government services in local administrations. We find that both outsourcing and internal...
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La tendencia del crecimiento económico colombiano pasó de la aceleración (años 1930 a 1960) a la desaceleración (años 1970 a 1990). Esta reversión de la dinámica económica colombiana se relaciona con la disminución tendencial de las ganancias en productividad. Para obtener este...
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Das Wachstum in China ist ins Straucheln geraten. Für das Jahr 2016 rechnet die OECD mit einem realen BIP-Wachstum von … 6,7%. Im Zeitraum von 2002 bis 2011 hatte China noch ein jährliches BIP-Wachstum von 10,6% erzielt. Ferdinand … Dudenhöffer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, geht für die Zukunft von einem neuen Wachstumsmuster für China aus, das nicht mehr …
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