Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 59
Cover Image
Agglomeration Dynamics of Business Services
Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
areas as well as between urban areas in the same agglomeration and between urban areas in different agglomerations. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419323
Cover Image
Knowledge & Innovation in Space
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; R. Stough, Roger - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
The purpose of this working paper is to provide a short overview of actual topics in contemporary research concerned with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to understand the current changes of the global and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741445
Cover Image
The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms
Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
also shows how agglomeration economies affect MNEs and non-MNEs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969813
Cover Image
Human Capital, Talent, Agglomeration and Regional Growth
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Stough, Roger R. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
?, ii) How does this agglomeration affect the location of different types of economic activities?, and iii) How does this … agglomeration affect regional growth? There are different underlying agglomerative forces creating spatially concentrated increasing … spare time activities. One major reason for the agglomeration of production in urban regions and metro¬politan areas today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969816
Cover Image
That’s Entertainment - scale and scope economies in the location and clustering of the entertainment economy
Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
It is argued that the introduction of new technology is leading toward the decentralization of the production and consumption of creative products and industries. But creative industries and workers may benefit from being around large markets, access to shared labor, network interactions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644892
Cover Image
The Creative Class or Human Capital? - explaining regional development in Sweden
Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
Human capital is observed to be an important contributor to growth but unevenly distributed geographically. While there is consensus on the importance of human capital to economic development, debate takes shape around two central issues. First, there is the question of how best to measure human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419305
Cover Image
Music Scenes to Music Clusters - the economic geography of music in the U.S., 1970-2000
Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
Where do musicians locate, and why do creative industries such as music continue to cluster? This paper analyzes the economic geography of musicians and the recording industry in the U.S. from 1970 to 2000 to shed light on the locational dynamics of music and creative industries more broadly. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626058
Cover Image
REGIONAL POLICY AS CHANGE MANAGEMENT - a theoretical discussion with empirical illustrations
Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
The paper focuses on challenges and potentials for policy in the presence of fundamental change processes that influence the long-term evolution of regions. The perspective in the paper implies that policy can be viewed as ‘management of change’. We present a conceptual model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003101
Cover Image
LABOR MOBILITY AND SPATIAL DENSITY
Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
an important source of agglomeration economies. Based on matched employer-employee data, we estimate the influence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003102
Cover Image
Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy
Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
The importance of metropolitan regions as national growth and development engines, and in particular as driving forces in national as well as global innovation processes is well recognized. This paper highlights the role of metropolitan regions in different contexts in order to lay a foundation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246581