Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in...

In the age of migration, many developed countries face an increasing heterogeneity of their residents. Migrant flows often lead to political discussion about the impact of migrants on labour markets, economic growth, and urban agglomeration processes, and consequently many of these causalities...

This paper studies the industry-specific relationship between industrial clustering and firm growth. The literature usually considers industrial clusters as positive for the general economic development of regions. In particular, their relationship with the formation rate of new firms and the...