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Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration : evidence from Lombardy

Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2012

-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …

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The impacts of urban location on the involvement of knowledge-intensive services in international innovation collaboration

Herstad, Sverre; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2012

Research on territorial innovation systems has traditionally put a very strong emphasis on intra-economy collaborative linkages as they allow valuable tacit knowledge to flow between co-located firms and institutions. Frequent face-to-face contact between producers and demanding users combined...

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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999

The paper deals with the question which determinants can explain regional differences in the number of start-ups in Austrian and Western German districts when observing the business related service sector. We separate our sample in firms operating in knowledge intensive sectors and start-ups...

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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2012

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...

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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2013

We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing...

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The Producer Service Sector in Italy : Long-Term Growth and its Local Determinants

Di Giacinto, Valter; Micucci, Giacinto - 2007

This paper analyzes the local determinants of producer service growth in Italy, focusing on agglomeration economies, and taking into account the particular features of this sector with respect to manufacturing. Using an OECD classification, we estimate a dynamic specification allowing for...

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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata

Kemeny, Tom - 2018

Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...

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Services Sectors' Concentration : The European Union, Greece, and the New Economic Geography

Krenz, Astrid - 2013

The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors' concentration in the European Union based on employment data and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport sectors...

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The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises

Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023

The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...

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The spatial distribution of urban consumer service firms : evidence from yelp reviews

Humphreys, Brad R.; Matti, Josh - In: International journal of empirical economics 2 (2023) 3, pp. 1-26

A growing literature employs distance-based measures of localization to assess the spatial distribution of firms with a focus on manufacturing across a country. We analyse the spatial concentration of a variety of consumer services firms in the Phoenix, AZ area using geo-referenced Yelp data...

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