Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and
unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

NATIONAL BORDERS SEEM increasingly porous. Nearly 215 million persons now live in a
country where they were not born, so immigrants account for about 3 percent of the world's …

In this study, we use cross‐country bilateral data to quantify a two‐step process of
international migration and its aggregate determinants. We first analyze which country …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to show that the approaches to smart specialisation
being adopted in different European Union (EU) regions are likely to be heavily shaped by …

Latin America and the Caribbean is a middle-income region. The typical country in the
region has an income per capita about 25 percent above the typical country in the world, but …

This paper analyzes the effects of the co-authorship and bibliographic coupling networks on
the citations received by scientific articles. It expands prior research that limited its focus on …

We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which
are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters …

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred
by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some …

Las políticas industriales a menudo han causado más daño que beneficio. El nuevo marco
conceptual presentado en este libro permite a los países adoptar las políticas de desarrollo …