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Urban Amenities or Agglomeration Economies? Locational Behaviour and Entrepreneurial Success of Dutch Fashion Designers
Wenting, Rik; Atzema, Oedzge; Frenken, Koen - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008
. Designers located in the Amsterdam cluster do not profit from agglomeration economies as such, but rather from superior … networking opportunities with peers both within and outside the cluster. …
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Clustering and firm performance in project-based industries: The case of the global video game industry, 1972-2007
Vaan, Mathijs De; Boschma, Ron; Frenken, Koen - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
, negative localization externalities associated with competition grow proportionally with cluster size, while positive … localization externalities increase more than proportionally related to cluster size. By studying the survival patterns of 4 … after a cluster reaches a critical size. We further unravel the subtleties of the video game industry by differentiating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586219
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Merger and acquisition activity as driver of spatial clustering: the spatial evolution of the Dutch banking industry, 1850-1993
Boschma, Ron; Hartog, Matté - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013
This paper investigates the extent to which merger and acquisition activity contributed to the spatial clustering of the Dutch banking industry in Amsterdam. This analysis is based on a unique database of all banks in the Netherlands that existed in the period 1850-1993. We found that spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696490
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Getting Into Networks and Clusters: Evidence on the GNSS composite knowledge process in (and from) Midi-Pyrénées
Vicente, Jérôme; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Brossard, … - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008
This paper aims to contribute to the empirical identification of clusters by proposing methodological issues based on network analysis. We start with the detection of a composite knowledge process rather than a territorial one stricto sensu. Such a consideration allows us to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729443