Knowledge resides in many teams/parties who are involved in the creation or production process. Large engineering organisations within the industry play an important role for their contribution to innovation and creation of new knowledge. Firms driven by the desire to earn economic rent are...

Economic analysts have expressed significant interest in the transition of the industrial base towards knowledge-intensive production. A central aspect of this transition is the growth and development of industries that provide the technological and scientific foundations for what is often...

We study the determinants of agglomeration of Canadian manufacturing industries from 1990 to 2009. In so doing, we revisit the seminal contribution by Rosenthal and Strange (2001, "The determinants of agglomeration", J Urban Econ 50(2), 191?229) using a long panel and continuous measures of...

In moving society towards more sustainable forms of consumption and production, social learning must play an important role. Making the assumption that it occurs as a consequence of changes in understanding, this article presents a methodology for mapping meanings in sustainability communication...

A previous paper discussed explicit bounds in the exponential approximation for the distribution of the waiting time until a stationary reversible Markov chain first enters a 'rare' subset of states. In this paper Stein's method is used to get explicit (but complicated) bounds on the Poisson...

Let {C(t), t [greater-or-equal, slanted] 0} be a renewal reward process. We obtain the approximation Var C(t) = ct + d + o(1), and explicitly identify c and d.

The future of global environmental sustainability is contingent upon educating the next generation of environmental stewards. Critical elements of training such an interdisciplinary workforce include mentoring and experiential learning in the areas of science, communication, and leadership. To...

The National Forests of the United States encompass 192.7 million acres (78 million hectares) of land, which is nearly five percent of the total land area of the nation. These lands are managed by the US Forest Service (USFS) for multiple uses, including extraction of timber, production of...

Interviews with fieldworkers from the UK 2001 Census give voice to a unique, grounded view of the operational quality of census-taking. While the overall response to the census has been estimated at 94%, enumerators and their managers explain why differential undercount between social and...