SPRU Freeman Centre, University of Sussex
29th and 30th of March 2010
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The next DIMETIC session will take place in Maastricht from October 12th to 23rd, 2009.
It will be devoted to : MODELLING, SYSTEMS AND DYNAMICS
Deadline for application is September 1st, 2009.  read more »

This paper analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and industrial structure in a small, resource-based economy (Norway). The contributions of the paper are threefold. First, it develops an evolutionary and historically oriented approach to the study of the development of science, technology and innovation policy based that may have wide applicability.  read more »

The channels through which firms access and acquire new and relevant knowledge for their innovative activities is a critical issue for the geography and the management of innovation.  read more »

The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region. Based on a large firm-level survey, the work investigates extent, depth, regional embeddedness and degree of internationalisation of outsourcing processes, differentiating production, research and service activities. Fragmentation is remarkably wide and interests all industrial sectors to a similar extent.  read more »

This paper uses an innovation-based taxonomy of both manufacturing and service industries to assess the role of different industries in the process of structural change of the last 25 years in Europe.  read more »

Why do some countries catch up, while others stay poor? In recent years data on different aspects of development have improved a lot. To exploit this opportunity for more in-depth research we use factor analysis on a dataset of 25 indicators in 115 countries between 1992 and 2004.  read more »

In their influential book Varieties of Capitalism; The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Peter A. Hall and David Soskice argue that the technological specialization patterns of developed countries are largely determined by the “varieties of capitalism” prevailing in these countries.  read more »

This work explores the spatial distribution of productive activities in the Italian manufacturing industry. We propose an econometric model which tries to disentangle location-specific from sectoral drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration.  read more »

This work explores basic properties of the size and growth rates distributions of firms at the aggregate and disaggregate levels. Using an extensive dataset on French manufacturing firms, we investigate which properties of firm size distributions and growth dynamics characterize the aggregate dynamics and are, at the same time, robust under disaggregation.  read more »

Different formulae for the decomposition of aggregate productivity levels and changes are applied to German manufacturing firms that pertain to 11 different industries at a roughly two-digit level observed over the period 1981-1998.  read more »

Recent finance literature highlights the role of technological change in increasing firm specific and aggregate stock price volatility (Campbell et al. 2001, Shiller 2000, Pastor and Veronesi 2005). Yet innovation data is not used in these analyses, leaving the direct relationship between innovation and volatility untested.  read more »

Sunk costs due to entry into foreign markets have been used as the main justification the relationship between firm productive efficiency and exports. We use a large-scale firm-level dataset of French manufacturing firms to evaluate how sunk costs affect the productivity dynamics of new exporters.  read more »

Using firm-level data from the third Community Innovation Survey, the paper investigates effects of foreign ownership on research and development (R&D) activity carried out by innovative firms in the Czech Republic.  read more »

There is considerable empirical evidence that the variety of the most developed economic systems has considerably increased since the time of the industrial revolution. Although strongly suggested by empirical evidence, this growth in variety has not been confirmed by adequate measures.  read more »