This book provides a comprehensive picture of the location of technological innovation of multinational corporations in the European Union. The increasingly global research strategies of the world's largest firms are analyzed at a detailed regional level across the major EU countries. This...

Are the agglomeration economies of technology hubs augmented by a localized market for start-ups – acquisitions, and IPOs? How does this affect the ability of places outside of those hubs to foster digital startups as a tool of local economic development? We study this with a particular focus...

Many of the most prosperous places in the U.S. are hotbeds of technology and also the home bases of companies which exercise monopoly power across much larger territories – nationally, or even globally. This paper makes four arguments about regional income disparities. First, monopoly, and the...