and tax-based sources. Greater exposure to innovation and trade does not predict higher inequality in levels of changes …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic … global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge services. Based on prior research on clusters and services offshoring … commoditization of knowledge work on KSC growth: It is proposed that KSCs attract most projects if service commoditization is medium …

Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are intermediary firms which specialise in knowledge screening, assessment … perceived by many as the natural by-product of modern knowledge economies within which increasing specialisation induces the … need for professional agents in the markets for external knowledge. This paper addresses critically a conceptual flaw in …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …