This is the first book on a new policy approach that has been widely adopted in Europe and
beyond. It analyses the concept of smart specialisation and discuss the need for smart …

Scientific collaboration networks are a hallmark of contemporary academic research.
Researchers are no longer independent players, but members of teams that bring together …

The extent to which scientific advances support marketplace inventions is largely unknown.
We study 4.8 million US patents and 32 million research articles to determine the minimum …

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained
economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael …

abstract Who introduces structural change in regional economies: Entrepreneurs or existing
firms? And do local or nonlocal establishment founders create most novelty in a region? We …

This article illustrates the contribution of mobile inventors and networks of inventors to the
diffusion of knowledge across firms and within cities or states. It is based upon an original …

Using German social security data, we study inter-industry labor mobility to assess how
industry-specific human capital is and to determine which industries have similar human …

We use new data on the location and background of entrants into the US tyre industry to
analyse why the industry became so regionally concentrated around Akron, Ohio, a small …

This paper provides an original framework for the interpretation of innovative activity among
European regions according to traditional 'geographical'spillovers and 'relational'spillovers …

We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their
employers. Our study documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm …