structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into … manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its structure. Manufacturing activities are subject to increasing returns to … scale, and many manufacturing goods have high income elasticities of demand. For these reasons, manufacturing is referred to …

Aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of regional determinants on export competitiveness of Croatian companies … in the manufacturing industry in the period from 2004 to 2010. Using the spatial econometrics the impact of agglomeration … externalities, innovation potential, firm size, foreign ownership concentration and development of regions on the export …

globalized economy implies that the share of foreign imports in the production of export commodities increases. This suggests …. Export activities are not evenly distributed over space: While some regions are more specialized in the production of …