majority of existing New Economic Geography models ignores the interdependence between spatial concentration, knowledge …-study 61 empirical contributions, which are related to the knowledge production function, the concept of spatial dependence and … knowledge spillovers. The meta-study is complemented by bibliometric research. The paper ultimately concludes that the empirical …

and the importance of knowledge and uncertainty in innovative production even when knowledge is fully exclusive and … appropriable. This motive for clustering will be stronger the more important new knowledge in the industry. It thereby helps to … account for the empirical finding that economic activity clusters more strongly in industries where new knowledge plays a …