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Knowledge Spillovers, Black Holes and the Equilibrium Location of Vertically Linked Industries
Barde, Sylvain - 2010
Using a generalized version of the Venables (International Economic Review, 37: 341-359) model, this article explores the relative locations of two vertically linked sectors with knowledge spillovers. Analytical investigation shows that the dynamic properties of the Venables model are...
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The influence of academic institutions on regional clusters using the ICT cluster of Waterloo, Ontario as an example
Bechtloff, Katharina - 2012
The paper aims to examine the role of academic institutions in the development of the ICT cluster of the Waterloo … ability to innovate. The ICT sector with its analytical knowledge base depends on radical innovations which are developed … universities does not automatically result in the development of an ICT cluster. In the region of Waterloo three academic …
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The evolution of the location of economic activity in Chile in the long run : a paradox of extreme concentration in absence of agglomeration economies
Badia-Miró, Marc - In: Estudios de economía 42 (2015) 2, pp. 143-167
Chile is characterized as being a country with an extreme concentration of the economic activity around Santiago. In spite of this, and in contrast to what is found in many industrialized countries, income levels per inhabitant in the capital are below the country average and far from the levels...
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Chapter 8. Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Feldman, Maryann P.; Kogler, Dieter F. - 2010
The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what has been termed the new economic geography, this area of research is less than 20 years old, and is now developed sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around...
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Long-term growth determinants of young businesses in Germany : effects of regional concentration and specialisation
Otto, Anne; Fornahl, Dirk - 2008
In dem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Ausprägungen regionaler Konzentration und Spezialisierung das langfristige Wachstum neugegründeter Unternehmen beeinflussen. Die Stichprobe umfasst wissensintensive und nicht-wissensintensive westdeutsche Unternehmen des verarbeitenden...
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Cluster ambidexterity towards exploration and exploitation : strategies and cluster management
Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Rothgang, Michael; Wolf, Tina - 2015
Cluster studies have shown that innovation can be understood as the result of an inter- organizational process, where a division of labor with regard to exploration and exploitation exists among the actors inside the cluster. A cluster is ambidextrous if it manages to balance innovative...
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The Impact of Industrial Clusters on the Innovativeness of Business Firms in Poland
Kowalski, Arkadiusz Michał - 2012
The paper focuses on the concept of clusters, which have become an important element of innovation systems at the regional and national level. After joining the European Union in 2004, the process of dynamic creation of cluster initiatives in Poland has started, both in traditional and modern...
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Urban agglomeration and firm innovation : evidence from Asia
Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi - 2020
This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms' innovation-related activities across 25 developing countries in Asia. We find firm innovation...
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Fostering place-based innovation and internationalization the new turn in German technology policy
Dohse, Dirk; Fornahl, Dirk; Vehrke, Julian - 2018
Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a region-oriented and competition-based R&D policy. Currently, a new policy experiment, the InterClust contest, is under way, trying to simultaneously foster place-based...
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Cluster Life Cycles - Dimensions and Rationales of Cluster Development
Menzel, Max-Peter; Fornahl, Dirk - 2015
We present a model that explains how a cluster moves through a life cycle and why this movement differs from the industry life cycle. The model is based on three key processes: the changing heterogeneity in the cluster describes the movement of the cluster through the life cycle; the geographical...
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