Firms

We examine whether firms locate their R&D labs near universities, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source knowledge from universities.

We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research.

In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities.

We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail industry.

We investigate the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain.

This report provides empirical evidence on the extent of industry co-location, or geographic clustering, for all sectors of the economy within Great Britain.

This paper uses within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms' overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms' home-country operations.

We examine whether discretionary government grants influence where domestic and multinational firms locate new plants, and how the presence of agglomeration externalities interacts with these policy instruments.

We investigate the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain.

This Briefing Note considers recent trends in specialisation, outsourcing and offshoring of business services.

We examine whether discretionary government grants influence the location of new plants, and how effective these incentives are in the presence of agglomeration and urbanisation externalities.

This paper analyses the reported performance of foreign-owned manufacturing subsidiaries in the UK between 1994 and 1998.