La decisión de la localización es una de las opciones estratégicas más importantes que tienen que tomar las empresas, con influencia directa sobre su competitividad. Por este motivo, se han desarrollado numerosas metodologías que ayudan en la toma de estas decisiones. En este trabajo, se...

This paper studies the spatial and productive adjustments of the Colombian industry during the years 1985-1998. this was a period of commercial reforms and reconversion process preceding the crisis of the end of the last century. From the point of view of the spatial economy and mainly of the...

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> Este trabajo presenta una nueva metodología comparativa de valoración de activos basada en el Proceso Analítico en Red (ANP), que permite abordar contextos de escasa información, considerar variables de naturaleza cualitativa y sus interdependencias, situaciones todas muy comunes en...

Taking the early U.S. automobile industry as an example, we evaluate four competing hypotheses on regional industry agglomeration: intra-industry local externalities, inter-industry local externalities, employee spinouts, and location fixed-effects. Our findings suggest that inter-industry...

Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries concentration and innovation. This paper addresses this gap...

In this note, I address two frontiers where we, as regional scientists, can raise the visibility and impact of regional science and enlarge the community of scholars in our fold. The first is the resurgence of regionalism as a phenomenon and policy arena. My argument here is that many...

This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess spin-offs from a university-based technology transfer network. We first detect the regional objectives, inputs and outputs needed to assess spin-offs from support programmes. We then provide evidence on regional mechanisms for firm creation....