Summary This paper studies the relationship between firm growth and external factors. Externalities from related economic, public research and higher educational activities are traced back to specific locations in space. The spatial characteristics of their impact are examined within a...

By illuminating the philosophical roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and typological issues surrounding the debate on knowledge amongst economists. Wide-ranging in scope, it explores fundamental aspects of the...

Games with frequency-dependent stage payoffs (FD-games), are infinitely repeated non-cooperative games played at discrete moments in time called stages. The stage payoffs depend on the action pair actually chosen, and on the relative frequencies with which all actions were chosen before. We...

The dynamics of drug launch has been an under-researched area, especially in the context of developing countries, which have diverse disease profiles and weaker forms of regulation compared to developed countries. A limited set of studies, undertaken in recent years, on the diffusion of new...

This paper studies the relationship between firm growth and external factors. Externalities from related economic, public research and higher educational activities are traced back to specific locations in space. The spatial characteristics of their impact are examined within a distancebased,...

B<sc>renner</sc> T. and S<sc>chlump</sc> C. Policy measures and their effects in the different phases of the cluster life cycle, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. In recent years, policy measures have frequently been applied to clusters. This paper analyses whether different types of policy measures should be applied in...

B<sc>renner</sc> T. and M<sc>ühlig</sc> A. Factors and mechanisms causing the emergence of local industrial clusters: a summary of 159 cases, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Local industrial clusters have attracted much attention in the recent economic and geographical literature. A huge number of case studies have been...