This paper documents and assesses the economic performance of metropolitan technology centres in the U.S. during the business downturn of the early 2000s. The authors find that many of the U.S.s leading high-technology centres have performed at or near the national average, but that some of the nations most prominent technology centres have fared poorly during the downturn, including Silicon Valley.
The ultimate goal of the plan is to increase Maines R&D activity to $1 billion by 2010. The plan creates a road map toward achieving the objective of higher per capita income, set forth in the State Planning Offices 30 and 1000 Plan, created in 1998.
This paper provides a detailed description of recent research to re-estimate and re-specify the international trade volume and price equations that are used in the OECD Economics Department to analyse international trade developments. New panel data estimates of the factors affecting export performance, import penetration and exchange rate pass-through into trade prices are reported for both OECD and non-OECD economies.
The authors explore the role of business services in knowledge accumulation and growth and the determinants of knowledge diffusion including the role of distance. A continuous-time model is estimated on several European countries, Japan, and the United States.
In recent years, most states have undertaken initiatives to spur economic development through investments in university research. This study seeks to probe the connections between these three activities—state policies, university research, and the commercialization of academic research findings.
This paper proposes a framework to capture the dynamic process of knowledge creation in which knowledge is created through the dynamic interaction between subjectivity and objectivity. Knowledge is created through the synthesis of thinking and actions of individuals, who interact with each other within and beyond the organizational boundaries.
With New Jersey facing a 14 percent loss of high-tech jobs since 2000, the Commission on Science and Technology commissioned a study for developing a High Tech Recovery Plan for New Jersey.
There are doubts about the effectiveness of regional policy, according to the authors. They validate one explanation: agglomeration advantages lock business activity in relatively prosperous core regions, even though wages – and thus production costs – tend to be higher there.
This paper concentrates on the creation of physical conditions, with particular emphasis on the accommodation of social differences in our built environment, the processes that lead to segregation, and how planning methods could provide a counterweight.
The authors examine some of the economic forces that underlie economic growth at the county level. In an effort to describe a much more comprehensive regional economic growth model, they address a variety of different growth hypotheses by introducing a large number of growth related variables.