Introducing the topic of diversity: creativity, knowledge production, innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth
Diversity and place development: theory development
1: Bart Nooteboom: Cognitive distance, diversity, focus, and trust in geography
2: Ron Boschma: Designing smart specialization policy: relatedness, unrelatedness, or what?
3: David B. Audretsch: Democracy and the strategic management of place
4: Philip Cooke: Translating specialist versus diversified business models into spatial planning? Dark limitations and lighter inspirations
Workforce and labour market diversity
5: Mikaela Backman and Stephan Brunow: Age diversity in firms and its relation to wages: evidence from Germany
6: Christian R. Ostergaard and Bram Timmermans: Workplace diversity and innovation performance: current state of affairs and future directions
7: Oskar Jost, Holger Seibert, and Mirko Wesling: 'Demographic Tailwind' from East Germany? How apprenticeship opportunities of foreign youth in West Germany depend on East German apprentices
8: Tom Broekel, Rune Dahl Fitjar, and Silje Haus-Reve: Diversity, complexity, or the relatedness of occupations: what drives industrial and regional development?
Diversity and entrepreneurship
9: Ross Brown and Augusto Rocha: Analysing diversity in entrepreneurial finance across entrepreneurial ecosystems
10: Alessandra Colombelli, Anna D'Ambrosio, and Valentina Meliciani: Explaining spatial diversity in entrepreneurship: the role of knowledge and cultural diversity
11: Julian Waters-Lynch and Sam Tavassoli: Collaborative work spaces, diversity, and regional entrepreneurship growth: a conceptual review
12: Ram Mudambi and Agnieszka Nowinska: Triggered explorers and entrepreneurial embedded expanders: multiple paths to spatial expansion by service intermediaries
Regional diversity, innovation, and productivity
13: Annekatrin Niebuhr and Jan Cornelius Peters: Regional cultural diversity and firm innovation - important effects of heterogeneity or merely sorting?
14: Roberto Basile, Gloria Cicerone: Diversity and spatial productivity growth
15: Daniel Speldekamp, Joris Knoben, and Frank van Oort: More ways to Rome: the agglomeration and firm productivity relationship through a configurational lens
16: Giulio Cainelli, and Roberto Ganau: Spatial diversity, firm heterogeneity, and economic performance
