This paper surveys some of the most noteworthy literature on the diffusion of process
technologies from the point of view of economics. It examines the main theoretical …

In the 1980s stagflation and high unemployment caused a renewed interest in supply side
economics and in factors determining economic growth. Simultaneously, the 1980s and …

This paper deals with the effects of publicly funded research at universities, polytechnics and
federal research laboratories on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the …

The paper analyses the co-operative relationships that public research institutions in
Germany have developed with manufacturing firms and with each other. We find that …

This paper studies the effect of regional spillovers on the rate of firm formation in two major
West German industries for the time period from 1989 to 1993. 1 exploit regional variations …

The purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, we formulate a general method of
identifying clusters of economic activity in a country or region. The methodology is based on …

This paper presents the economic rationales of government intervention into innovation
activities and into the supply of innovation-related services as inputs in innovation …

Recent empirical work shows that innovation activities tend to be clustered in space
(Audretsch and Feldman, 1996; Feldman, 1994). This suggests that there are significant …

This paper discusses the element of cooperation between firms in the form of information
exchange through communication into the Hotelling spatial competition model. It is shown …

Using 4 years of data from 36 American cities and 6 high technology groupings we present
thc first estimates of University R&D spillover effects on ctnployrnent at this level of disag …