We consider the effect of export sophistication on economic performance using regional variations within a single country (China) over the period 1997-2007. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)’s prediction that regions that engage in the cost discovery process of developing...

Knjiga obraduje nacine i modele financiranja regionalnog razvoja putem zaklada i fundacija

A comparison between University Expenditures on Education and Research shows a great advantage of the United States regions in comparison with the majority of the European regions and countries. Only a few European regions receive enough support for these important activities which have a highly...

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975 2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...

The systems of innovation (SI) approach has been established and extended during the last two decades. Although elementary goals and progress have been reached through seminal contributions by Freeman (1987), Lundvall (1992) or Nelson (1993), in designing a generic approach, displaying the...

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on "home market" effects, as in Krugman (1980, 1995). In this paper, I show that what previously was regarded as an assumption of convenience - transport costs only for the differentiated goods...

Arboletes, Necoclí, San Juan de Urabá y Turbo, no sólo son los municipios del Caribe antioqueño sino que comparten una segunda característica, hacer partede la periferia del país. En Colombia esto no parece ser una virtud, ya que sonprecisamente las poblaciones periféricas las que...

Buenaventura no sólo es uno de los puertos más importante de Colombia, sinoque también hace parte del Valle del Cauca, uno de los departamentos másprósperos junto con Antioquia y Cundinamarca. Sin embargo, y pese a estascaracterísticas, es uno de los municipios más pobres del país. Este...