Daan van Soest is grateful to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support of the PRET research program. Shelby Gerking acknowledges the hospitality of CentER at Tilburg University where this chapter was written. He would also like to thank the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support (visiting grant B46-386). This chapter has benefited from careful comments by Erwin Bulte, Arjen Gielen, Henri de Groot, Jan Lambooy, John List, Bart Los and Willem van Groenedaal.
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van Oort, F.G., van Soest, D.P., Gerking, S.D. (2005). Dynamic Information Externalities and Employment Growth in the Netherlands. In: Boschma, R.A., Kloosterman, R.C. (eds) Learning from Clusters. The GeoJournal Library, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3679-5_13
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