Spatial proximity facilitates transfer of knowledge and technology between research institutes or universities (RIU) and firms. Against this background the location of research institutions and universities is often seen as an instrument of regional policy to promote knowledge flows and R&D...

Advances in information and communication technologies bring along changes in working and employment conditions. Automationed work is moved to distant areas and businesses get elaborate, far from the center and network-based. Another change similar to the disintegration of production process is...

Location factors can be understood as a set of indicators of the locational advantage for firms of a certain region. Most studies on location factors presume a linearly increasing relationship between locational advantage and respective location factors. In this paper, this widespread assumption...

This paper explains the location choices of multinational companies (MNCs) in a transition economy by traditional economic factors and institutional quality. Based on a thorough theoretical framework and a set of hypotheses, empirical data of an enterprise survey of 153 foreign firms in three...

Die Arbeitsproduktivität in den Neuen Bundesländern (NBL) liegt unter dem Niveau der westdeutschen Bundesländer. Die sinkende Gründungsdynamik, die sich in Deutschland feststellen lässt, ist für die nachhaltige Entwicklung und die Stabilität der Region besonders problematisch. Die NBL...

Neben den USA ist Israel eines der wichtigsten Entwicklungszentren für zivil und militärisch genutzte Hochtechnologie. Ob einst in der Landwirtschaft, später vor allem in der Informationstechnik und militärischen Sicherheitstechnologie, insbesondere in der Optoelektronik, dann in den...