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Regional determinants of new business formation in China : prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015 - Draft version
Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...
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Regional dynamics of economic performance in the EU : to what extent spatial spillovers matter?
Özyurt, Selin; Dées, Stéphane - 2015
This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on a recently available dataset from the European Cluster Observatory covering 253 European regions over the period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483641
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Determinants of technological innovation in SMEs : firm-level factors, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS providers
Ganau, Roberto; Di Maria, Eleonora - 2014
technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492075
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Spatial sorting of innovative firms and heterogeneous effects of agglomeration on innovation in Germany
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Peters, Jan Cornelius; Schmidke, Alex - 2019 - Revised version: June 1, 2019
We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing … and services, only some weak indication for positive effects of localization on radical innovations of manufacturing firms …
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Does the intensity in R&D generate start-up's growth?
Vendrell-Herrero, Ferran; González-Pernía, José Luís - 2010
The role of R&D investment on firm's performance is not clear from a theoretical perspective. While the effort in R&D activities conducted internally helps firms to develop the ability to identify, assimilate and apply external knowledge successfully (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990), such activities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198405
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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe
Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012
In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...
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Estimating the long-term economic impacts of the Spanish universities on the national economy
Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Pérez García, … - 2015
Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings …. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on … output, income and employment deriving from the universities' activity and their associated spending. This paper focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475812
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
manufacturing, we extend our analysis to the services sector. Finally, we are among the first who identify agglomeration effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539710
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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27
Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint
We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct on a NUTS-2 level a complete regional data for exports, imports and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540876
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Agglomeration with the pros and cons of labor heterogeneity
Ihara, Ryusuke - 2011
Using a simple two-region model with the positive and negative effects of labor heterogeneity, we investigate the agglomeration pattern of entrepreneurs and the commuting pattern of heterogeneous workers. Labor heterogeneity is a source of productivity for e.g. high-tech industries as well as is...
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