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This paper contributes to the debate on the inducement of environmental innovations by analysing the extent to which endogenous inducement mechanisms spur the generation of greener technologies in contexts characterized by weak exogenous inducement pressures. In the presence of a fragile environmental regulatory framework, inducement can indeed be endogenous and environmental innovations may be...

The structure of social networks within and across cities influences urban creativity and the potential for new knowledge creation. We propose that cities achieve greater inventive creativity when there is (1) a short average social distance among inventors in a city, and (2) those inventors are highly clustered. A short average social distance allows knowledge to circulate quickly across a lar...

The grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) is a direct measurement that can be determined from a single planar section. Since the GBCD is inversely related to the grain boundary energy distribution, it offers a useful metric for validating grain boundary energy calculations. Comparisons between the measured GBCD and calculated energies for 388 grain boundaries in Al show that, for boundar...

Where and why do new industries emerge? Using revisions of official industrial classifications, a central contribution of this paper is to document the fraction of workers in entirely new industries, stemming directly from technological change of the 2000s. Our findings speak to a growing concern about the U.S. economy’s capacity to create new work: we show that in 2010 only 0.5 percent of the ...

Vol. 24, No. 1, 2012 101 Received November 3, 2010, Revised January 11, 2011, Accepted for publication January 11, 2011 *This work was supported by the SRC/ERC program of MOST/ KOSEF (R11-2005-017-05003-0) and Basic research program through the NRF funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0002431). Corresponding author: Hyun Jeong Park, M.D., Department of Dermatology, ...

We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We find an inverse ‘u’-shaped relationship between the level of start-up activity and employment change. The main variables that shape the employment effects of new businesses in a region are population density, the share of medium level skilled workers, the proportion of Research a...

There are 33 rural, 18 semi-rural and 9 urban municipalities in Lithuania according to three criterias: 1) part of population living rural areas; 2) density 3) distance municipality from large towns/cities. Silutė district together with Rusnė ward has been studied detail search the main problems sustainable development these territories Klaipėda region. System analysis approach method integrate...

There are no theoretical studies in regional science that examine which region to locate from the standpoint of a creative class member, given pertinent authorities (RAs) competing among themselves attract using subsidies. This gap provides motivation for our paper. paper’s contribution is it first theoretically study location choice members when RAs locations they might subsidies them. Specifi...