(education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the …

Traditionally, economic geographers stress geographical proximity’s positive impact on collaboration processes …

Knowledge intensive business services firms can play a key role in modern economies by linking localized collaboration …

preferences towards geographically dispersed collaboration that are most pronounced within the Western business district of the …

spillovers. Using data on the collaboration patterns of innovative firms in Sweden, this paper provides evidence that firms with …

and because the children have different access to education. Public policy is thus called for, for vertical as well as … cannot remedy this. Quantity controls become necessary: a compulsory education package, financed by a redistributive tax … system, achieves both types of equity. Redistributive taxation and compulsory education are therefore best seen as …

heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …