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Determinants of machinery firms´ innovation activity - case study from the Czech Republic
Prokop, Viktor; Stejskal, Jan - 2015
machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving … force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from …
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The Role of Institutional Development in Creating Knowledge Based Economies: The Example from the Balkan Countries
Maric, Kristina; Shukarov, Miroljub - 2016
The aim of this paper is to present the role of institutional development in creating knowledge based economies which will further foster higher prospects for economic growth. A knowledge based economy is one that exploits knowledge to develop and maintain long-term economic growth. One of the...
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Economic and social motives of using geography-related information and communication technologies: a Japanese-Hungarian comparative study
Jakobi, Akos - 2012
Theoretical as well as practical experiences of analyses confirmed that spatial processes of the diffusion of information and communication (ICT) technologies largely influenced the economy and society of the 21st century. In the last couple of years, a new motive of ICT-based inequalities...
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Complex regional assessment possibilities of competitiveness of the information economy and society in Hungary: from regional statistics to regional policy
Jakobi, Akos - 2012
Since ICT factors got growing importance in shaping social and economic differences, the determination of competitiveness in the information economy and society became needful in understanding modern regional disparities of Hungary. To evaluate recent inequalities caused by the factors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340908
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Interlocking firm networks in the German knowledge economy. On local networks and global connectivity.
Luethi, Stefan; Thierstein, Alain; Bentlage, Michael - 2010
We assume that the territory of Germany is experiencing a reorganisation of functional division of labour in favour of the knowledge economy. New forms of network economies and functional differentiation between cities and towns can be observed. The increasing importance of emerging network...
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Accessibility of German agglomerations. An approach with non-physical connectivity
Bentlage, Michael; Lüthi, Stefan; Thierstein, Alain - 2010
The knowledge economy plays a key role in the spatial development of cities and towns. Options of flexible spatial organization of company locations have influenced business strategies and decision-making in choosing locations. This process establishes complex network economies in which...
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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality
Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - 2013
This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
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The world city network: national versus global perspective
Lüthi, Stefan; Thierstein, Alain; Hoyler, Michael - 2015
World cities are important nodes in the global networks of knowledge-based economies. As a result of the growing complexity of knowledge creation, firms increasingly organise their activities in business networks that operate across different spatial scales. On the global scale, new information...
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Knowledge economy infrastructure formation in the northern regions of the Russian Federation
Zhideleva, Valentina; Sedusova, Natalia - 2015
When we consider knowledge economy as the top level of innovative economical development and the basis for the scientific knowledge, there is a need to make a favorable environment that might provide its efficient function. Knowledge economy that follows postindustrial society includes the...
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The knowledge economy and the economic crisis in Germany. Regional development, structural change and labor market regions
Bentlage, Michael; Dorner, Matthias; Thierstein, Alain - 2015
Regions in Germany are facing an intensifying structural change towards the knowledge economy which is affecting spatial patterns of growth. . Features of such a change know many facets: fierce competition for skilled, mobile and motivated labor force, unemployment of non-qualified labor, longer...
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