1st Edition
Urban Growth and Innovation Spatially Bounded Externalities in the Netherlands
By Frank G. van Oort
Copyright 2004
285 Pages
by
Routledge
285 Pages
by
Routledge
285 Pages
by
Routledge
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Knowledge externalities - i.e. intellectual gains made by exchange of information for which no direct compensation is given to the producer of the knowledge - result in higher economic growth rates across urban areas, as well as higher degrees of innovation intensity in those locations where economic activity is dense. By combining theories and methodologies on localised growth and innovation... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Agglomeration in economic and geographical theories; Heterogeneity in localized economic growth; Exploratory spatial data analysis; Location-industry employment dynamics; Sectoral employment dynamics; Innovation intensity; Summary and conclusions; Appendix A: data on employment dynamics; Appendix B: data on innovation intensity; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Frank G. van Oort is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Urban Economics at Utrecht University.
