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Using international co-authorships, the authors test the hypothesis that international collaboration is a self-organising network. Applying tools from network analysis, the paper shows that the growth of international co-authorships can be explained based on the organising principle of preferential attachment, although the attachment mechanism deviates from an ideal power-law.

The author proposes a model of growth driven by the co-evolutio of institutions and technology. The paper analyzes economic growth, generally, as the consequence of learning and specifically as the result of institutional and technological change.

This report presents the findings from a review of the empirical and theoretical literature addressing the states and stages of business growth and how these can be influenced by external interventions.

This report is a follow-up to an earlier report on the progress of JOBZ. The purpose of this policy brief is learn how an increased level of uncertainty has affected the performance and application of the program.

According to the report, Massachusetts leads the nation for its strength across a broad variety of economic indicators. Massachusetts found itself in the top position for the second straight year. The 2005 Report assigns 42 variables to eight categories – government and fiscal policy, security, infrastructure, human resources, technology, business incubation, openness, and environmental policy – and combined these eight measures into a single “competitiveness index.”

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the causal nexus connecting social capital’s diverse aspects to the “quality” of economic development in Italy. The analysis accounts for three main social capital dimensions (i.e. bonding, bridging and linking social capital) and measures them through synthetic indicators built by means of principal component analyses performed on a dataset including multiple variables.

This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary organizations positively affect the economic performance and the quality of urban ecosystems, differently from strong ties connecting family members and close friends, which, on the other side, are proved to reduce labour precariousness.

This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital.

This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being beyond those flowing through economic channels.

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration on higher education and economic growth. The authors take into account that participation in higher education is noncompulsory and depends on individual choice.