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Regional concentration of knowledge intensive business services in Europe

Vence Deza, Xavier; González López, Manuel - 2010

This paper aims to contribute toa better understanding of the Knowledge Intensive Services spatial distribution across the European Union(EU) regions(NUTSII), linking recent research approaches on innovation and structural change with approaches to regional economics. As a means of conducting...

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Portuguese public services : past experiences and new trends in management

Tomé, Ricardo; Teixeira, José Afonso - 2014

With the recent global economic and financial crisis, the governments throughout Europe have been closing, concentrating, restructuring or privatizing some public services and, at the same time, the number of services available in electronic platforms (e.g., by Internet or telephone) has been...

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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...

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How cluster membership places the mediatior effect of internal resources on the association between KIBS and the growth of NIFs

Belso-Martínez, José; Molina-Morales, Xavier; … - 2011

association between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and the growth of the New Innovative Firms (NIFs) is moderated by … way we integrate both, network strategic perspective (external resources represented by the KIBS) and those authors from …

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Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship across regions : makes being a new industry a difference?

Wyrwich, Michael - 2011

knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in East and West Germany in the 1990s. At the time of German re-unification in 1990 …s in the former socialist East Germany no KIBS sector existed in contrast to West Germany. The findings indicate that …

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When purchasing professional services supports innovation

D'Antone, Simona; Santos, Juliana Bonomi - In: Industrial marketing management : the international … 58 (2016), pp. 172-186

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Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration : evidence from Lombardy

Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2012

-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …

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The impacts of urban location on the involvement of knowledge-intensive services in international innovation collaboration

Herstad, Sverre; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2012

Research on territorial innovation systems has traditionally put a very strong emphasis on intra-economy collaborative linkages as they allow valuable tacit knowledge to flow between co-located firms and institutions. Frequent face-to-face contact between producers and demanding users combined...

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The effect of absorptive capacity on exports : a panel data analysis

Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010

In previous research, we analysed the effect of technological innovation, understood as absorptive capacity, on exports by using a gravity model of trade for the year 2000 (see Márquez-Ramos and Martínez-Zarzoso, 2009). We found that the effect of technological innovation on trade varies...

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Determinants of technological innovation in SMEs : firm-level factors, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS providers

Ganau, Roberto; Di Maria, Eleonora - 2014

(SMEs) by accounting, simultaneously, for firm-specific characteristics, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS …. Finally, results suggest that the spatial agglomeration of KIBS providers - i.e. being located in an area characterised by a … high concentration of KIBS firms - does not matter per se: in fact, a positive effect emerges only when firms …

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