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regional economic or innovative activity may be divided into two broad categories — knowledge “spillovers” (i.e., positive … market contracts (licenses) and nonmarket “spillovers” exemplified by patent citations. We find knowledge flows through … market transactions to be more geographically localized than those operating through nonmarket spillovers. Moreover, the …
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number of much smaller rural regions also revealed high levels of start-ups. Knowledge spillovers from universities and firm …
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Entrepreneurship is a local and dynamic phenomenon. We jointly investigate spatial spillovers and time persistence of … systematically search for the most suitable spatial weighting matrices. We find substantial spatial spillovers as well as time …
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Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries during the last three decades, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in...
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The author tests how the local economic structure - measured by a region's sector specialization, competition, and diversity - affects the technological growth of manufacturing sectors. Most of the empirical literature on this topic assumes that in the long run more productive regions will...
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paper discusses this topic in two steps: First, the theoretical concept of knowledge spillovers is outlined by discussing … the different types of knowledge, the spatial dimension of knowledge spillovers, and the geographical mechanisms and …
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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sufficiently developed. Interregional knowledge spill-overs take place only when the initial technological gap is not too wide, and …
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local employment. Our results point to local spillovers between SMEs that were PPP recipients and large importers as being …
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In this article we assess the growth impact of London Heathrow’s development constraints on other airports in the UK. To test the relationship we use a two-stage methodology yielding an estimate of a congestion spillover effect. Our data are passenger traffic from 1990 to 2012 containing both...
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