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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...

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Testing urbanization economies in manufacturing industries : urban diversity or urban size?

Fu, Shihe; Hong, Junjie - 2010

decreases with firm size. The characteristics of agglomeration economies in a transition economy are also discussed. …

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Planning for the future : a land-use and transport interaction model for Switzerland : conference paper at 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014

Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Bode, J.; Zeiler, … - 2014

Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...

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The determinants of agglomeration redux

Behrens, Kristian; Brown, W. Mark; Bougna, Théophile - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We study the determinants of agglomeration of Canadian manufacturing industries from 1990 to 2009. In so doing, we … revisit the seminal contribution by Rosenthal and Strange (2001, "The determinants of agglomeration", J Urban Econ 50(2), 191 …

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When are localization and urbanization economies important? : evidence from the location of new firms

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; Marín-López, Raquel; Viladecans … - 2012

urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for each industry which type of agglomeration economies - localization … agglomeration economies, we analyse which industry characteristics are the sources that explain differences in the strength of these …

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Geographic concentration, observational equivalence and the source of industrial agglomeration

Wren, Colin M. - 2010

spillovers as a source of industrial agglomeration, but the well-known 'observational equivalence' means little is known about … the relative importance of these. This paper uses the difference in the temporal scope of the agglomeration source to …

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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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Blooming landscapes in the West? : German reunification and the price of land.

Schoettler, Raphael; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2016

German reunication was a positive market access shock for both East and West Germany. Regions that for 45 years had experienced a decline in population due to their loss in market access following the division of Germany of WWII were most strongly affected by this positive shock. We use an...

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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

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Exploring the economic geography of Ireland

Morgenroth, Edgar L. W. (contributor) - 2008

Only a few research papers have analysed the spatial distribution of economic activity in Ireland. There are a number of reasons for this, not least the fact that comprehensive data on the location of economic activity by sector across all sectors has not been available at the highly...

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