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Knowledge Spillovers in Biotechnology : Sources and Incentives
Audretsch, David B.; Stephan, Paula E. - 2013
This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions we suggest lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent...
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On the spatial diffusion of cooperation with endogenous matching institutions
Migliaccio, Emanuela; Verdier, Thierry - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/58, pp. 1-27
that protects cooperators. We consider cooperation as characterized by a cultural trait transmitted via an endogenous … initially localized domain of preferences for cooperation can invade the whole population and characterize the asymptotic speed … relatively low cost segmenting institutions can appear in new places thanks to the spatial random diffusion of cooperation …
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Firm Behavior and Pollution in Small Geographies
De Silva, Dakshina G.; McComb, Robert P.; Schiller, Anita R. - 2019
We consider the relationship between the location choices of potentially polluting firms and local income. Unlike previous research in the area of economic justice, we distinguish between pollution potential and actual releases of toxic substances in the locality. We explore the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105794
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Corporate Competition : A Self-Organized Network
Braha, Dan - 2011
A substantial number of studies have extended the work on universal properties in physical systems to complex networks in social, biological, and technological systems. In this paper, we present a complex networks perspective on interfirm organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122930
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The Consequences of Persistent Inequality on Social Capital : A Municipal-Level Analysis of Blood Donation Data
Oto‐Peralías, Daniel; Romero‐Ávila, Diego - 2016
This paper advances the hypothesis that persistent inequality affects cultural traits and undermines social capital. We use blood donation data at the local level in Southern Spain to document that, indeed, persistent inequality – as measured by land inequality – negatively affects blood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124084
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Inferring Networks of Interdependent Labor Skills to Illuminate Urban Economic Structure
Shutters, Shade T.; Waters, Keith - 2020
Cities are among the best examples of complex systems. The adaptive components of a city, such as its people, firms, institutions, and physical structures, form intricate and often non-intuitive interdependencies with one another. These interdependencies can be quantified and represented as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031934
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Investment in ICT : determinants and economic implications
Fabritz, Nadine - 2015
This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312803
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Investment in ICT : determinants and economic implications
Fabritz, Nadine - 2015
This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742893
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Varieties of systems of innovation : a survey of their evolution in growth theory and economic geography
Christ, Julian P. - 2007
Innovation ; Knowledge Externalities ; Localized Knowledge Spillovers ; Knowledge Diffusion ; Tacit Knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958828
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From Market Fixing to Market-Creating : A New Framework for Economic Policy
Mazzucato, Mariana - 2016
spillovers across the economy) and are today catalyzing investments to tackle climate change around the world. In the two above …
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