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Metodologia de identificação de aglomerações produtivas locais [Methodology for identifying local productive agglomerations]
Crocco, Marco; Galinari, Rangel; Santos, Faiana; Lemos, … - In: Nova Economia 16 (2006) 2, pp. 211-241
The literature on industrial and regional economics is full of cases studies of local productive agglomerations. A significant part of the empirical studies on this subject have concentrated on the analysis of existing productive agglomerations. In contrast, there are few studies that attempt...
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Analysis of the regional location of the knowledge intensive services at European level
Gallego Martínez-Alcocer, Gallego Martínez-Alcocer , Jorge - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 17, pp. 71-92
This paper is an attempt to clarify recent trends in the distribution of knowledge intensive services (KIS) in Europe, which have emerged during the last decade as key agents for sustaining local and regional competitiveness. Firstly, particular attention is paid to the definition, the...
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Proximité territoriale et innovation : une enquête sur la région de Montréal
Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle; Fontan, Jean-Marc; Klein, … - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2003) 5, pp. 835-852
The effect of proximity on development has fostered much interest over recent years and STORPER has put forward the …) and aimed at identifying the effects of proximity on innovation and local development; the method was based on interviews … and data collection. We conclude that institutional proximity combine with physical proximity in the structuring of a …
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Une évaluation du rôle de la proximité dans la coordination des activités de R&D des firmes
Carrincazeaux, Christophe - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2001) 1, pp. 53-74
This article aims at evaluating the link between knowledge properties and geographical proximity in the coordination R … used to understand the role of geographical proximity. Results confirm that this framework may be able to explain the … spatial dynamics of industrial R&D. Moreover, the diversity of sectoral patterns shows that geographical proximity is not the …
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Metropolregionen: Impulsgeber für Strukturwandel und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Stiller, Silvia; Sünner, Isabel - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 7, pp. 471-475
Städte und ihr Umland bilden vielerorts in Deutschland dynamische Wachstumsregionen. Aufgrund ihrer Bevölkerungsgröße und der hohen Zahl an Arbeitsplätzen gehen von diesen Metropolregionen Impulse für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Deutschlands insgesamt aus. Dabei konzentrieren sich die...
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Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands: Sorting into cities for better careers
Kok, Suzanne - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 2, pp. 1-36
Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...
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Regional investments in Southern European cities
Metaxas, Theodore - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 61 (2011) 1/2, pp. 55-79
The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of their assets (agglomeration economies, urban infrastructures, factors of labor and cost, etc.), the degree of development policies implementation and effectiveness by local...
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Endogenous or exogenous innovation development in industry on regional level?
Świadek, Arkadiusz - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 70-85
At the moment endogenous growth theory has become increasingly popular in the world of science, particularly in developed countries. This article aims to show, for two regions case, the needs and sense of applying this theory in the polish regions. Due to the low level of economic development of...
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Construction of a multi-regional input-output table for Nagoya metropolitan area, Japan
Yamada, Mitsuo - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
Japan has many input-output tables, national and regional. We focus on the Nagoya metropolitan area, in which Toyota Motors is headquartered along with many industries manufacturing transport equipment, machine tools and other machinery. This area is included in the region covered by three...
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Private R&D not necessarily drawn to areas with high public R&D
Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 45, pp. 517-526
. For private R&D, spatial proximity to manufacturing plays a much stronger role than does proximity to public R&D- hence …
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