Productivity Growth and Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Economies in European Regions

Economic Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-50

  Antonelli, Cristiano ^a,b   Patrucco, Pier Paolo ^a,b   Quatraro, Francesco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b BRICK Bureau of Research in Innovation Complexity and Knowledge   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Geographic agglomeration; Knowledge transactions; Patents; Pecuniary knowledge externalities; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 78650817774     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2010.01104.x     Document Type: Article

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