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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 Births of New Private-owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-owned Enterprises

Zhao, Zhong; Zheng, Liang - 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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Modeling services sectors' agglomeration within a new economic geography model

Krenz, Astrid - 2012

This study investigates whether services sectors' agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...

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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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What do we know about spatial entry?

Debarsy, Nicolas; Dejardin, Marcus - 2008

In his oft-cited "What do we know about entry?", Paul Geroski (1995) gave a survey of empirical works on this central topic regarding industrial organization and, more precisely, market dynamics. Surprisingly, his article remains silent on the spatial dimension of these dynamics. This paper...

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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

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

Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...

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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

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The Regional distribution of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Europe: a spatial approach

Rodriguez, Mercedes; Camacho, José Antonio - 2010

knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …

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The Determinants Of Inward Foreign Direct Investment In Business Services Across European Regions

Meliciani, Valentina; Castellani, Davide; Mirra, Loredana - 2013

The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...

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Evaluation of the structure of the services sector in Brazil: a regional approach

Cardoso, Verônica; Perobelli, Fernando - 2014

The accelerated growth of the service sector is one of the characteristics of the actual pattern of global growth. In Brazil, it is possible to point to a move towards a 'service economy' following the global standard. However, it cannot say that Brazil is regionally services intensive, ie, the...

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