This article investigates the role played by geography in the promotion of innovation. In order to examine these issues we employ empirical data from Finland in order to test the extent to which the variety and nature of face-to-face contacts affects the innovation performance of the firm. In...

This paper investigates the role played by the knowledge transfers fostering innovation in Finnish high technology industries. In particular, we examine the roles played by both face-to-face knowledge transfers and also human capital transfers between different types of agents and institutions...

Research and development cooperation relationsrequire face-to-face contact and are the most geographically localized ofinter-firm relations. This study examines the importance of face-to-facecontacts and labor market mobility in fostering innovation. Specifically,it examines the role and...

This article presents a theoretical model of the role of intra-regional economies of scale and inter-regional externalities across a three dimensional regional economy. Kubo's (1995) two-dimensional analysis is extended to study the dynamic properties of the development of the three regions. We...

In this article we discuss the relationships between transportation infrastructure, firm location, agglomeration and regional development. We will argue that the spatial transaction costs faced by modern firms have changed over recent decades, and that this has changed the ways in which...

This note will argue that the interpretation of neo-classical location-production models, as a possible basis for informing us about real-world phenomena, is not as straightforward as might be supposed. The reason for this is that such models contain implicit assumptions concerning the...