Location determinants of high-tech firms: An intra-urban approach

JM Arauzo-Carod - Industry and Innovation, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses location determinants of high-tech firms at the intra-urban level,
concretely for neighbourhoods of Barcelona. Mercantile Register data is used to analyse the …

Do KIBS make manufacturing more innovative? An empirical investigation of four European countries

D Ciriaci, S Montresor, D Palma - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge-intensive
business services (KIBS) into manufacturing. The concept of an economy's vertically …

Spatial agglomeration and productivity in I taly: A panel smooth transition regression approach

G Cainelli, A Fracasso… - Papers in Regional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The paper analyses the nonlinearities in the impact of localization, diversity, urbanization
and competition on firm‐level total factor productivity (TFP), using a large sample of Italian …

Do knowledge-intensive business services innovate differently?

G Cainelli, V De Marchi… - Economics of innovation …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper contributes to the debate on the differences across service and manufacturing
firms focusing on two comparable sectors: knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) …

The impact of KIBS'location on their innovation behaviour

S Brunow, A Hammer, P McCann - Regional Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important
drivers of technological progress and innovation. They generally depend on knowledge …

Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the 2008 recession: Evidence from Italian industrial districts

G Brunello, M Langella - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate whether the impact of recessions on entrepreneurship is affected by the
presence of industrial districts, a source of local agglomeration economies. Using Italian …

Exploring the entropy-complexity nexus. Evidence from Italy

R Antonietti, C Burlina - Economia Politica, 2023 - Springer
Combining evolutionary economic geography and the recombinant knowledge approach,
we test whether the level of entropy in available capabilities affects the level of a region's …

Contemporary processes of concentration and specialization of industrial activity in post-socialist states as illustrated by the case of Wrocław and its suburbs (Poland)

D Sikorski, P Brezdeń - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper explores the issues of contemporary spatial differentiation in the process of
industry concentration and the accompanying specialization according to the intensity of …

The clustering of knowledge-intensive business services in Greater Mexico City, 2010 through 2020

JA Alvarez-Lobato, JA Cabrera-Pereyra… - Papers in Applied …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyzes knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) clustering and location
patterns in Greater Mexico City. Although there is evidence of the importance of KIBS …

KIBS companies and their importance for economy and innovation

M Zieba - Understanding Knowledge-Intensive Business …, 2021 - Springer
Companies offering knowledge-intensive business services are subject to various types of
analyses, both at the macroeconomic and microeconomic level. In the literature, you can find …