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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Regional policy of innovation

Quesada, Javier - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2008) 12, pp. 181-210

Economic globalization has rendered innovation policy as the main instrument for improving —or keeping— the threatened competitiveness of firms and regions. This article analyzes the level of innovation in Spain, the role played by Information and Communication Technologies in regional...

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Business dynamics and innovation: the role of the space

Segarra Blasco, Agustí - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 15, pp. 5-23

This paper provides a revision on the growing interdependencies that today we can find among the works that address the business dynamics and spatial economics. In recent years, an increasing attention to knowledge as competitive resource of businesses and territories, the presence of increasing...

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Influence of the dimensions of the absorptive capacity in the development of new products in a context of industrial district. An empirical study to the case of the Valencian texti...

Expósito-Langa, Expósito-Langa , Manuel; … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 17, pp. 29-50

This research reunites some fundamental aspects for firms’ competitiveness: innovation, territory and absorptive capacity. The objective of this research consists of studying how the absorptive capacity influences the innovation process, centering on the context of an industrial district,...

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International vs. Intra-national Convergence in Europe – an Assessment of Causes and Evidence

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2008) 13, pp. 35-56

cases, and contribute to a process of convergence betweennations.To address the mechanisms behind this process, the long run … tendencytoward convergence on the national level in Europe and tries to providesome tentative explanations based on empirical as well …

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Regional innovation systems in Portugal: a critical evaluation

Santos, Domingos; Simões, Maria João - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2014) 28, pp. 37-56

Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last decades. Public policies have been shaped by «best practice models» derived from high-tech urban-metropolitan areas and successful regions. However, lessons learned from these examples are rarely transferable...

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Development, growth and decline in Europe: New patterns of economic convergence and divergence?

Cornett, Andreas P.; Soerensen, Nils Karl - European Regional Science Association - 2013

structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …

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Does Connectivity Impact Innovation Performance in Rural Regions?

Wassmann, Pia; Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...

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