Data for: "Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy’"

This dataset contains a variety of world economic indicators that are the foundation of a map that was published in Regional Studies, Regional Science entitled " Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy’". Data include shares of aggregated GDP, import, export, and business of all world regions. Further contextualisation can be found in the journal article (related publication, see below). Data was collected from different databases, see also below: GaWC - Globalization and World Cities The Global Economy Fortune Global 500