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We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing … employment density. For the service sector, in contrast, we find adverse effects of localization on different kinds of innovation …
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concentrated. • Geography provides a platform to organize economic activity. • All places are not equal: urbanization, localization …The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what … sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around certain stylized and commonly accepted facts: • Innovation is spatially …
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The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...
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Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and Smith (2014) proposed a pair of quantitative measures...
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of industry characteristics on the localization and … urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for each industry which type of agglomeration economies - localization …
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Chile is characterized as being a country with an extreme concentration of the economic activity around Santiago. In spite of this, and in contrast to what is found in many industrialized countries, income levels per inhabitant in the capital are below the country average and far from the levels...
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