The authors argue that ‘the knowledge economy’ offers perspectives for growth and added value creation. The paper clarifies what elements the knowledge economy actually consists of, how it can be measured in statistical indicators, in which regions and cities in the Netherlands the knowledge economy has its most significant imprints and what statistical association there is between these regions and cities and relatively good economic performance of firms.
The authors use a VAR/ECM approach to determine the effects of aggregated public investment on output, employment and private investment for five European Union countries.
The Opportunity Forecast informs regional decision-making processes with sound information and an appreciation of the Twin Cities’ global standing. Findings reveal that the Twin Cities places among the top half of the competitive regions in 54 percent of the 120 indicators and in the bottom half in 47 percent of them.
The authors examine the dynamics of knowledge production for a panel of 19 OECD countries. A new and unique data set is used to proxy the domestic flows of “new-to-the-world” knowledge and ideas. The parameters of the knowledge production function point to large cross-country differences, according to the authors.
The authors examine supplier switching decisions using a unique database that tracks firms (credit unions) and their suppliers (data processing vendors). Results suggest that both CU and vendor characteristics are important determinants of buyer-supplier relationships.
The author intends to verify whether the results obtained by Barro (1990) in relation to the effects of both productive investments and public consumption on economic growth are also confirmed in a more general context.
This paper introduces a new two-country, four-region model in order to study the possible trade-offs arising between national efficiency and interregional equity, differentiating for different strengths of agglomeration economies and different regional productivities.
This paper investigates the effect of spillovers in a model of endogenous technical change resulting from learning or network effects on the existence of a lower bound to market concentration.
The authors examine some determinants of growth in Egypt since the mid-1980s using insights from both standard econometric techniques and a diagnostic approach proposed by Hausmann, Rodrik and Velasco (2004). They find that trends in government consumption, credit to the private sector and the average growth rate of OECD countries have been significant determinants of growth in Egypt in the past.
San Diego Dialogue conducted research during the past eighteen months to identify “clusters of opportunity” that have the potential to help the San Diego-Baja California region reshape its economic relationship. These include biomedical device manufacturing, aerospace and defense, software, marine biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and clinical research. The findings suggest that the region has the potential to become an integrated, world-class R&D, manufacturing, and supplier base unlike any other in the world.