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The Cluster Policy Paradox: Externalities vs. Comparative Advantages
Pessoa, Argentino - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
optimal-policy perspective recommends providing a subsidy to firms of clusters generating externalities, while Porter …’s prescriptions recommend not choosing among clusters. So, we state that cluster policy is involved in a paradox: policy makers use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319363
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A new look into the evolution of clusters literature. A bibliometric exercise
Cruz, Sara C. Santos; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2007
In the contemporary globalising knowledge-based economies, local clusters have become crucial elements of regional … raising importance of the theoretical debate on clusters, there is a substantial lack of empirical support of its precise … magnitude and evolution. Moreover, the majority of literature surveys on clusters are exclusively qualitative-based. Aiming at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031586
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Computational Results on Membership in R&D Cooperation Networks: To Be or Not To Be in a Research Joint Venture
Leite, Duarte; Campos, Pedro; Mota, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
In this study, we analyze firms’ membership in R&D (Research and Development) cooperation networks. Our main research hypothesis is that the membership in cooperation networks is related to the degree of the knowledge spillover. The approach focus on both cost symmetry and cost asymmetry. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009192027
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Comparing Strategies of Collaborative Networks for R&D: an agent-based study
Campos, Pedro; Brazdil, Pavel; Mota, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
In this work we analyze the evolving dynamics of different collaboration network strategies that emerge from the creation and diffusion of knowledge. In addition, we aim at describing their most relevant network properties over time. An evolutionary economic approach has been adopted by avoiding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852020
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Network and firm antecedents of spin-offs: Motherhooding spin-offs
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Tavares, Ana Teresa; … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
We advance firm and network conditions that are favorable for the gestation of new spin-offs by entrepreneurial employees that exit the mother firm to constitute their own companies. This type of entrepreneurial activity has some unique characteristics. We suggest that spin-offs from certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059497
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The Use of Game Theory in Regional Economics: a quantitative retrospective
Silva, Sandra T.; Mota, Isabel; Grilo, Filipe - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
The construction of formal models that deal with space observed a huge increase since the late 1980s. As Fujita et al. (1999) stress, the field of regional economics experienced a revival with the emergence of new analytical tools such as the diffusion of imperfect competition models, networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617867
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Endogenous Response to the ‘Network Tax’
Fique, José Pedro - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
The turmoil in the financial markets that had its roots in the 2007 US subprime crisis prompted government action all over the world motivated by contagion concerns, leaving a heavy bill for the tax payers to pick up. We find that a contributory regime based on contagion risk exposure changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862796
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A dynamic aggregate supply and aggregate demand model with Matlab
Gaspar, José M. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2015
bifurcation as its steady state smoothly interchanges stability depending on the relation between the sensitivity of the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250898
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Optimal Control of Infinite-Horizon Growth Models — A direct approach
Lopes, Mário Amorim; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.; … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
We propose a framework to solve dynamic nonlinear infinite-horizon models like those found in the standard economic growth literature. We employ a direct method to solve the underlying optimal control problem, something novel in the economic literature. Instead of deriving the necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842592
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A MIXED MICRO-MACRO APPROACH TO STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL FOR MACRODATA
Matias, Cristina; Campos, Pedro - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
National Statistics Offices, Central Banks, and any other organisms and agencies producing statistical information, disseminate data so that the individual information is sufficiently protected. At the same time, those entities aim at providing society with as much information as possible under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842608