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Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...

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Entrepreneurship and Local Growth - a comparison of the U.S. and Sweden

Borgman, Benny; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

The U.S. is traditionally viewed as an economy driven by entrepreneurs, whereas the Swedish model is associated with high welfare ambitions and less focus on entrepreneurial activities. This paper seeks to empirically investigate whether the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the...

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Productivity in the euro area: any evidence of convergence?

Sondermann, David - European Central Bank - 2012

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. JEL Classification: C33, O47, J24, L60, L80 …

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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011

This paper first presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance of different transmission channels of the global economic and financial crisis to Sub-Saharan African countries. It then examines the repercussions of the crisis for the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and its...

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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011

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Breaking the cycle : a strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth in Burundi

Baghdadli, Ilhem (contributor) - 2008

A strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth -- Burundi's growth -- Agricultural recovery : food security and beyond -- Export crops : toward a significant contribution to growth -- Overcoming the main obstacles to growth

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Productivity of and Returns to Knowledge Investments

Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational decision making while knowledge is a form of...

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Firm Strategy, Location and MNE-networks

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Borje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper asks three explicit questions, where the first one concerns the impact of a firm’s choice of innovation strategy and knowledge resources. The study aims at confirming that firms with a strategy with R&D persistency have a markedly higher productivity, profitability and wage level...

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