This paper investigates the effect of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We address the endogeneity of market size by an IV strategy, based on a measure of potential market size, which is driven only by...

This paper examines the process by which firms in a cluster start to export based on systemic interactions and the process of diffusion of exporting as a business strategy within the cluster. Two Brazilian manufacturing industries are studied, and within each one a geographic cluster was...

Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes "Lokale Strategien für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung" des europäischen Forschungsprojekts TRUSTEE ("Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and Ecosystem services') beschrieben. Vor dem Hintergrund...

While purposive action is widely viewed as a sine qua non of entrepreneurship, the purpose of such purposive action, is often muted. We submit that exploring the purpose of entrepreneurial behavior, can yield valuable insights into the study of entrepreneurship. We leverage Ronald Coase's...

It is widely known that demand-pull policies in the United States, especially the federal investment tax credits (ITC) and the California Solar Initiative (CSI), have led to a rapid escalation in the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. But there has been little systematic study into...

Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes "Lokale Strategien für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung" des europäischen Forschungsprojekts TRUSTEE ("Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and Ecosystem services“) beschrieben. Vor dem Hintergrund...

One of the most heated discussions in economics in recent years has concerned the relationship between market structure and innovation. After a half-century of debate and innumerable studies, the consensus is that there is no clear answer to the question. On a concrete level, the uncertainty...

To address the relationship between innovation and competition we jointly estimate the opportunity, production, and impact functions of innovation in a simultaneous system. Based on Swiss micro-data, we apply a 3-SLS system estimation. The findings confirm a robust inverted-U relationship, in...

Not often is a general-purpose technology created that can disrupt numerous markets and significantly affect social welfare. 3D printing fits this description. It promises to improve the quality of some goods and to greatly increase the efficiency of their production processes. More importantly,...

Cooke P. and Clifton N. (2005) Visionary, precautionary and constrained 'varieties of devolution' in the economic governance of the devolved UK territories, Regional Studies 39 , 437-451. This paper explores economic development financing and action, an important policy arena if lesser...