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Vertical disintegration and spatial co-localization: the case of Kibs in the Metropolitan Region of Milan
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio; Lupi, Claudio - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2012
business service (Kibs) in the metropolitan region of Milan, using micro-geographic data and nonparametric methods. Our main … results are that: (i) compared to other manufacturing and service industries, Kibs show a natural tendency to cluster; (ii …) this tendency increases with the degree of vertical disintegration of Kibs. …
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Geographic concentration and vertical disintegration in KIBS: evidence from the metropolitan area of Milan
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011
-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs ….000 KIBS firms located in the metropolitan area of Milan in 2008, we first geo-referenciate our data by employing a GIS routine … this way, we estimate the impact of proximity-based specialization Vs diversification economies on KIBS firms' vertical …
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Assessing the tendency of Spanish manufacturing industries to cluster: Co-localization and establishment size
Casanova, Marta; Ríos, Vicente Orts - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2011
In this paper, we use a distance-based method, specifically the Ripley’s K function, to evaluate the spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing establishments and to assess the different tendencies to cluster in each sector or subsector relative to the whole of manufacturing....
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Mutations urbaines et logiques de localisation des emplois : le cas de la communauté de l'agglomeration Dijonnaise (1990, 1999)
Baumont, Catherine; Bourdon, Françoise; Guillain, Rachel - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2004) 4, pp. 579-608
The aim of this paper is to analyze the spatial changes in the Dijon urban area (COMADI) by studying in particular the new tendencies of localization of the high order producer services. Our results display a multicentric structure of the COMADI which exhibits several employment poles. Not only...
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...
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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing...
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Firm Entry and Exit in Local Markets: Market Pull and Unemployment Push
Dejardin, Marcus; Carree, Martin - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2011
Firm entry and exit flows in the retailing and consumer services may be viewed as market equilibrating processes. Local markets with considerable market room and high unemployment ought to be characterized by high subsequent entry rates and low exit rates. However, lack of entrepreneurial...
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Services Sectors’ Concentration: the European Union and the New Economic Geography
KRENZ, Astrid - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 13 (2013) 2, pp. 29-44
The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors’ concentration based on employment data in the European Union and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport...
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Fields of Knowledge, Types of Higher Education Institutions, and Innovative Start-Ups - An Empirical Investigation
Fritsch, Michael; Aamoucke, Ronney - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...
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THE DETERMINANTS OF INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN BUSINESS SERVICES ACROSS EUROPEAN REGIONS
Meliciani, Valentina; castellani, davide; mirra, loredana - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...
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