This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It is based on the premise that differences in firm-level returns, as well as economy-wide outcomes, may be linked to the heterogeneous ways in which firms organize and undertake...

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...

Diversity of development paths and structural transformation in historical perspective : an introduction / Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson -- Structural change and catching up : the relative small country advantage / Lennart Schön -- The latecomer advantages and disadvantages : a new...