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and leather products, R&D and design activities, high quality management and licensing technology from foreign firms are …
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and leather products, R&D and design activities, high quality management and licensing technology from foreign firms are …
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Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enables the production, use and transfer of knowledge in an efficient and low cost manner. Knowledge is the major factor in the knowledge economy and countries that have limited access to ICT are disadvantaged. This phenomenon is known...
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During the 1980s and 1990s "Active labour" market reforms opened up labour markets in Europe, making them more flexible without putting in jeopardy the essence of the social security protection model. Countries that went furthest in such "active labour" market reforms such as the UK, the...
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During the 1980s and 1990s "Active labour" market reforms opened up labour markets in Europe, making them more flexible without putting in jeopardy the essence of the social security protection model. Countries that went furthest in such "active labour" market reforms such as the UK, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150860
We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...
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anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up … to the technology frontier …
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We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810111
The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that knowledge decays strongly with distance. In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country's export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring country is a successful exporter of that same product. For...
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externalities in high technology industries in the metropolitan area, and that there also exist geographic knowledge spillovers … across metropolitan boundaries. In addition, this study finds that high technology specialization externalities are more … localized than high technology diversity externalities. …
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