• Learning through urban labour pools: Collected worker experiences and innovation in services 

      Herstad, Sverre Johan; Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen; Engen, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07)
      Knowledge-intensive services firms (KIS) depend on the skills and networks of employees, and tend to cluster in large-city regions. This raises the fundamental question of whether KIS ‘learn through urban labour pools’ in ...
    • Learning through urban labour pools: Collected worker experiences and innovation in services 

      Herstad, Sverre Johan; Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen; Engen, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11)
      Knowledge-intensive services firms (KIS) depend on the skills and networks of employees, and tend to cluster in large-city regions. This raises the fundamental question of whether KIS ‘learn through urban labour pools’ in ...
    • Returns to migration after job loss—The importance of job match 

      Kekezi, Orsa; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)
      Loss of specific human capital is often identified as a mechanism through which displaced workers might experience permanent drops in earnings after job loss. Research has shown that displaced workers who migrate out of ...
    • Social capital and economic growth in the regions of Europe 

      Muringani, Jonathan; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Social capital is an important factor explaining differences in economic growth among regions. However, the key distinction between bonding social capital, which can lead to lock-in and myopia, and bridging social capital, ...
    • Still in the shadow of the wall? The case of the Berlin biotechnology cluster 

      Abbasiharofteh, Milad; Brökel, Tom (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The evolution of knowledge networks has recently received a lot of attention from researchers. Empirical studies have shown that different types of proximities and network structural properties play a decisive role in tie ...