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The paper focuses on the impact of the Information Technology. The paper contains a description of some of the main characteristics of New Economy, as well as its terminology. Overall, the paper gives an indication not only of the importance of New Economy but also of how it inter-linkages with our behavioral pattern.

This paper first presents stylised evidence showing how the date of the introduction of competition policy is correlated with country size. Smaller countries tend to adopt competition policy later. The authors thereafter present a simple theoretical model with countries of different size and firms competing à la Cournot. The predictions of the model are consistent with the empirical regularity presented.

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. The authors achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus on the evolution of the entire cross-sectional income distribution.

The authors study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. The basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal distribution.

The report provides economic developers with an understanding of the latest research on the issues surrounding entrepreneurship and knowledge clusters as economic development strategies, along with practical new ideas and tactics.

This paper outlines the importance of knowledge management for supporting regional cluster development and the key ways in which communities of practice, a knowledge management technique, have been used to add value in similar contexts. How

Examining the potential of the concept of social capital to inform policy development and evaluation, the report offers a clear framework for the analysis of the concept, identifies policy and program areas where social capital makes a difference, and offers a strategic set of recommendations for testing new approaches, improved measurement, and policy action.

The eighth Annual Competitiveness Report (ACR) benchmarks Irelands performance for 171 key competitiveness indicators against 15 other advanced countries. The ACR notes that Ireland performs well on a wide range of indicators including, attraction of FDI, corporate and personal taxes and rates of entrepreneurship.

Previous research demonstrates that a firm’s market orientation is influenced by network factors, but few regard market orientation as an inter-firm phenomenon, i.e. as a part of cooperative inter-firm activities and relationships. The paper suggests inter-firm market orientation as an approach for studying this.

In this paper, the authors make an empirical analyse using panel data for Swedish regions. The purpose is
to analyse the relationship between regional growth and access to knowledge. They also acknowledge the size of the regional economy and access to the local labour market.