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Regional determinants of new business formation in China : prefecture-level evidence

Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015 - Draft version

Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...

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Geographic Constraints on Knowledge Spillovers : Political Borders vs. Spatial Proximity

Singh, Jasjit - 2017

Geographic localization of knowledge spillovers is a central tenet in multiple streams of literature. However, empirical studies have examined this phenomenon for only one geographic unit - country, state or metropolitan area - at a time, and have also rarely accounted for spatial distance. We...

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Does Crowdfunding Democratize Success? Revisiting the Effects of Agglomeration and Localized Knowledge Spillover on Creative Projects

Johan, Sofia - 2019

This study examines the effect of agglomeration and localized knowledge spillover on reward-based crowdfunding outcomes in the United States. By examining art projects specifically, we can measure how creative projects benefit from agglomeration or clustering, measured by the proportion of...

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Desperately Seeking Spillovers? : Increasing Returns, Industrial Organization and the Location of New Entrants in Geographic and Technological Space

S., Aharonson Barak - 2013

Using detailed data on Canadian biotechnology firms during the 1990s, we explore the geographic scope of knowledge spillovers and the balance spillover-seeking and expropriation-avoidance in entrants' locations. Our findings indicate that knowledge spillovers are highly localized, with entrants...

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Knowledge Spillovers, Black Holes and the Equilibrium Location of Vertically Linked Industries

Barde, Sylvain - 2010

Using a generalized version of the Venables (International Economic Review, 37: 341-359) model, this article explores the relative locations of two vertically linked sectors with knowledge spillovers. Analytical investigation shows that the dynamic properties of the Venables model are...

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The impact of university research on corporate patenting

Helmers, Christian; Rogers, Mark - 2010

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Consumption expenditures in economic impact studies : an application to university students

Hermannsson, Kristinn; McGregor, Peter G.; Swales, John Kim - 2013

We raise the issue of how appropriately to attribute economic impact to consumption expenditures. Despite the salience of the topic for applied economics it has not received much explicit attention in recent literature. In Input-Output analysis consumption expenditures are either treated as...

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The regional significance of university locations in Lower Saxony

Stöver, Britta - 2019

Universities are important economic actors in having a considerable impact on the demand and supply side of their local economy. The aim of this paper is to quantify, compare and classify the different economic demand- and supply-side contributions of the university locations within Lower-Saxony...

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The local impact and multiplier effect of universities in Lower Saxony on the labour market

Stöver, Britta - 2018

This paper quantifies and compares the direct and indirect effects of labour demand generated by each university location in Lower Saxony. The results are classified in order to identify regional patterns. The applied method is based on three components: the importance, the dynamics and the...

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The innovation and its territorial factors : an analysis in the micro-regions of São Paulo : (paper submitted to the ERSA 2014 Congress. "Regional development & globalisation: Best...

Mascarini, Suelene; Garcia, Renato - 2014

innovation in micro-region of São Paulo can be affected for some territorial factors. In the literature, and assumed here, the … the regional diversification and regional specialization are mentioned as important factors in the innovation process. The … main results suggested that although the level of R&D investments were important for generating local innovation, ie, the …

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