Compares Jaffe's work on the use of patents as a measure of the spillover of university research with the work of Acs and Audretsch in which innovation activity is measured by number of innovations. Jaffe's work, which modified the knowledge production function proposed by Griliches, showed a...

Previous research has indicated that investment in R&D by private firms and universities can lead to knowledge spillover, which can lead to exploitation from other third-party firms. If the ability of these third-party firms to acquire knowledge spillovers is influenced by their proximity to the...

Our objective in this paper is to define jurisdictional advantage, the recognition that location is critical to firms' innovative success and that every location has unique assets that are not easily replicated. The purpose is to be normative and policy oriented. Drawing from the well-developed...

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Sixty-six leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained the development of economic geography. Building on the success of the hugely influential first edition, this volume offers a radically revised, updated, and...

Capitalism is a powerful engine that requires finance. Private equity is part of the neoliberal transformation of capitalism that has failed the average citizen and unleashed a tsunami of leveraged acquisitions that have destroyed entire sectors of our economy. Private equity has become a...