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Diversity and the technological impact of inventive activity : evidence for EU regions
Morescalchi, Andrea; Hardeman, Sjoerd - 2015 - This preliminary version: June 2015
specialization (conceived in terms of either similarity or related variety) and localization have a positive effect on the impact of … technological detail along which relations among technologies play out. As related specialization has a positive effect on … Europe. One option concerns steering related specialization and localization at a coarse-grained technological level further …
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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers : a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019
This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
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Demographic change, growth and agglomeration
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa - 2010 - Preliminary version
Recently, there has been wide interest in the "economics" of population aging. Demographic change has crucial consequences for economic behavior; it e.g. implies that consumption and investment decisions vary over the life-cycle. The latter has important implications for economic growth, whereas...
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …
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Portuguese digital cities and regions : an evaluation
Simões, Maria João; Santos, Domingos - 2012
The purpose of this article is to contribute for the debate about the construction of governance spaces which guarantee the continuity of the regional development public policies, thus articulating actors and optimizing strategic projects in order to improve regional competitiveness ans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521998
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Smart specialisation in the EU : is it a bridge between innovation and cohesion?
Pessoa, Argentino - 2014
-tech'(S3 Platform website). This paper looks at the capacity of the smart specialization approach to attain the aims that it … specialization is able to bridge efficiency and equity which inspire innovation and cohesion, respectively. …
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Comparative analysis of the implementation of Triple Helix Theory in Greece and Hungary, its impact on the local entrepreneurship and lessons learned from both cases'
Kalman, Aniko; Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Kolovos, Konstantinos - 2014
In the theoretical part of our paper focused on a) The role of the Knowledge / Universities as a leader of Technological change ? Knowledge transfer dynamics and its influence on Regional Development, b) the Entrepreneurship education: The role of the Entrepreneurial University, c) Knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491209
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Technology, learning, and long run economic growth in leading and lagging regions
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...
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The knowledge economy and the economic crisis in Germany : regional development, structural change and labor market regions : working paper for the ERSA congress 2015
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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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area : the impact of centrality and peripherality : paper prepared for presentation at the 53r...
Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - 2013 - This version: February 28, 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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