Similar Search Results

From Agglomeration to Innovation : Upgrading Industrial Clusters in Emerging Economies

Kuchiki, Akifumi (ed.); Tsuji, Masatsugu (ed.) - 2010

This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053838

Social Capital and Business Development in High-Technology Clusters : An Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Agglomerations

Aydogan, Neslihan - 2008

The economics of regional clusters, where business formation, technological innovation, and the emergence of a highly-skilled labor force converge, has become a popular topic. This fascinating book applies a variety of tools and models to analyze, in depth, the formation and growth of high-tech...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521209

Open Innovation im Cluster : Eine Wirkungsanalyse zu Clusterinitiativen in forschungsintensiven Industrien

Nestle, Volker - 2011

In forschungsintensiven Industrien nimmt die räumliche Konzentration von Akteuren aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik immer größeren Einfluss auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen. Zusätzlich unterstützen strukturpolitische Maßnahmen die Etablierung von Clusterinitiativen, um die...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015404

Agglomeration and Firm Performance

Belussi, Fiorenza (ed.); Hervás-Oliver, José-Luis (ed.) - 2018

This contributed volume studies and explains the effect that agglomeration exerts on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396851

Geographical Labor Market Imbalances : Recent Explanations and Cures

Mussida, Chiara - 2015

This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402106

Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy

Ishikawa, Toshiharu (ed.) - 2015

This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting. The theoretical and empirical analyses examine the influence of the transfer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402155

Regional Externalities

Heijman, Willem (contributor) - 2007

The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role. This class of externalities can be divided into three categories: (1) externalities...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520637

A New Perspective on Agglomeration Economies in Japan : An Application of Productivity Analysis

Otsuka, Akihiro - 2017

This book describes various methods of analysis for ascertaining the effects of agglomeration economies, which are important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity and productive efficiency analyses as methods for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397420

Measuring Regional Specialisation : A New Approach

Kopczewska, Katarzyna; Churski, Paweł; Ochojski, Artur; … - 2017

This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure. It begins by … reviewing existing indicators and models of regional specialization before outlining a newly created, spatially embedded model … of specialization based on the spatial distribution of firms. It addresses the various applications of the model, and how …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397448

Economic Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration

Wang, Jian - 2018

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about the background, research topics and organizations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398053