Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

Abstract

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The Silicon Valley Syndrome

“…6 As employment in the tech sector expands and as these employees earn more, their demand for many types of local services, from coffee shops to orchestras, increases. Consistent with this expectation, several studies have found positive associations between employment in the tradable sector and employment in the non-tradable sector (Moretti and Thulin, 2013;van Dijk, 2017;Brenner et al, 2018).…”

Knowledge-Intensive Services Development in the EU: Forecasts for Selected Countries and Implications for Poland

“…Many studies focus on spatial variation of innovation in the knowledge-intensive business sector. The subject of their analysis is the regional diversification of companies in the KIS sector (Brenner et al, 2018;Dolores & Shearmur, 2012;Klaesson & Norman, 2015;Pauceanu, 2015;Ženka et al, 2017). The mentioned articles analyse the KIS in some countries (Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic).…”

“…The first group contains works that link regional innovation efficiency and KIBS (i.e. Brenner et al, 2018;Gallego & Maroto, 2015). The second group of authors and we focus on the location of KIS (Pauceanu, 2015;Ženka et al, 2017).…”

“…There seems to be an agreement in literature that knowledge intensive (business) services can contribute to economic growth, either regional or national (Brenner et al, 2018;Desmarchelier, Djellal, & Gallouj, 2013). Knowledge intensive business services provide advanced technological knowledge directly to other industrial sectors, and indirectly to the whole economy (Castellacci, 2008;Radovanović, Dmitrović, & Žarkić Joksimović, 2017).…”

Social Investment and Youth Labor Market Participation

“…In the following, we briefly review this methodology. For interesting applications of this method, see Brenner et al (2017); Guerini and Moneta (2017); Ciarli, Coad, and Moneta (2018);and Herwartz (2018).…”