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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512739
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515554
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Evaluation of the structure of the services sector in Brazil : a regional approach
Cardoso, Verônica Lazarini; Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro - 2014
The accelerated growth of the service sector is one of the characteristics of the actual pattern of global growth. In Brazil, it is possible to point to a move towards a 'service economy' following the global standard. However, it cannot say that Brazil is regionally services intensive, ie, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491981
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The determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across European regions : paper prepared for the ERSA 2013 Congress, Palermo, 27-21 August
Castellani, Davide; Meliciani, Valentina; Mirra, L. - 2013
The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537854
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The regional distribution of knowledge-intensive services in Europe : a spatial approach
Camacho Ballesta, José A.; Rodríguez Molina, Mercedes; … - 2010
knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012618803
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Tertiarisation and globalisation of productive systems : comparative analysis : ERSA Regions in motions : breaking the path : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Associa...
Melikhova, Yulia; Camacho Ballesta, José A.; … - 2012
It is commonly known that the provision of services is currently carried out at a global level. Tertiary activities not only continuously increase their share in total employment and value added, but also in international trade and, as a consequence, in the processes of externationalisation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508123
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Guevara, Carolina; Riou, Stéphane; Autant-Bernard, Corinne - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an agglomeration is what really matters. There exists an ongoing debate between the predominance of the effects of agglomeration from specialization and diversity. This paper aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480264
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The European countries : the role of services : special session SS33, Services and the Territory: Spatial Aspects and Problems of Service Activities
Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.; Maroto Sánchez, Andrés - 2010
The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over recent decades. The innovative focus of this paper concerns the role of the service sector in this relationship at a regional level. Services play a core role in advanced economies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654183
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525227
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527207