Spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms*

Firms’ Innovative Peformance. Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Industries

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effect of external knowledge sourcing strategies on the development of both product and process innovations, and assesses the degree to which such effects are influenced by the firm’s internal technological capacities. In our analysis, we consider two strategies for acquiring external knowledge (BUYING and COOPERATING) and two types of external sour...

Innovation and Exporting: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

This paper investigates the relationship between innovation and the export behavior of firms using data from a representative panel of Spanish firms over 1991-2002. It presents a simple theoretical model of the firm decision to export and innovate that guides the econometric analysis. Consistent with the predictions of the theoretical model, the econometric results suggest a positive effect of ...

Location Decisions of Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Firms: Es

PhD careers in Spanish industry: job determinants in manufacturing versus non-manufacturing firms

Recent studies undertaking an analysis of PhD careers have noted that academia remains the first choice employment sector; nevertheless, they also reveal an excess of PhD holders for the academic sector and show that industry is increasing as an important employment source for these human resources. In this study, the factors that shape a PhD’s decision to pursue a career in the private sector ...

Analyzing and Predicting Micro-Location Patterns of Software Firms

Jan Kinne 1,2,* and Bernd Resch 2,3 ID 1 Department of Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Centre for European Economic Research, L7 1, 68161 Mannheim, Germany 2 Department of Geoinformatics—Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria; [email protected] 3 Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA * Correspondence: [email protected]; T...