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The offline landscape of an online social network : distance and size shaping community spread and activity
Lengyel, Balázs; Jakobi, Ákos - 2012 - Version: June 2012
This initial paper of our interest on geography of online social network is based on a literature in which geographers … claimed to strongly twitted with physical world (Hayes, 1997). Parallel shift in economic geography research moved the focus … of interest from distance to proximity, which is essential in our understanding for new knowledge creation and innovation …
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Essays in the economics of digital transformation
Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024
link between geography and digitalization in the know-ledge economy. …
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Essays in the economics of digital transformation
Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024
link between geography and digitalization in the know-ledge economy. …
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THE SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT & MONITORING
AL-HADER, Mahmoud; RODZI, Ahmad - In: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 4 (2009) 2(11), pp. 87-94
The smart city infrastructure is the introductory step for establishing the overall smart city framework and architecture. Very few smart cities are recently established across the world. Some examples are: Dubai, Malta, Kochi (India), Singapore. The scope of these cities is mainly limited to...
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Innovation in peripheral regions: Do collaborations compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers?
Grillitsch, Markus; Nilsson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
It is widely accepted that firms in peripheral regions benefit to a lesser extent from local knowledge spillovers than firms located in agglomerations or industrial clusters. This paper investigates the extent to which innovative firms in peripheral regions compensate for the lack of access to...
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Global Networks of Trade and Bits
Riccaboni, Massimo; Rossi, Alessandro; Schiavo, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011
. Last, distance plays a more prominent role in shaping the network of international trade in physical goods than trade in …
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Shaping the formation of university-industry research collaborations: what type of proximity does really matter?
D'Este, Pablo; Guy, Frederick; Iammarino, Simona - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011
Research collaborations between universities and industry (U-I) are considered to be one important channel of potential localised knowledge spillovers. These collaborations favour both intended and unintended flows of knowledge and facilitate learning processes between partners from different...
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B2C - bubble to cluster: the dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional industry evolution
Buenstorf, Guido; Fornahl, Dirk - 2006
This article studies entrepreneurial activities emerging out of one of Germany's most prominent dot.com firms: Intershop, a maker of e-commerce software. We show that Intershop spawned at least 30 spin-offs. The majority entered locally, giving rise to a small but growing software cluster and...
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Regionale und unternehmensspezifische Faktoren einer hohen Wachstumsdynamik von IKT Unternehmen in Deutschland
Schröder, Christian - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2010
The information and communication technology (ICT) is a cross-section technology. ICT accelerate structural change and has a revitalizing effect especially in advanced economies. For Germany, it is therefore important not to leave behind on the fast growing ICT market and to produce a high...
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Spatial differentiation in industrial dynamics: A core-periphery analysis based on the Pavitt-Miozzo-Soete Taxonomy
Capasso, Marco; Cefis, Elena; Frenken, Koen - 2011
We compare the industrial dynamics in the core, semi-periphery and periphery in The Netherlands in terms of firm entry-exit, size, growth and sectoral location patterns. The contribution of our work is to provide the first comprehensive study on spatial differentiation in industrial dynamics for...
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