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Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150800
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Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712127
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Here Be Startups: Exploring a young digital cluster in Inner East London
Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705898
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Here be startups: exploring a young digital cluster in inner East London
Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126076
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Innovation et proximité entreprises, entrepreneurs et milieux innovateurs (Innovation and proximity enterprises, entrepreneurs and clusters)
Uzunidis, Dimitri - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2007
La nature systémique des relations qui caractérisent un milieu économique et social explique en effet ce qui favorise ou non l’acte d’innover. Seulement, doit-on réduire l’innovation, produit du milieu, aux seuls échanges inter-individuels débouchant sur une nouvelle combinaison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463580
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Spinoffs and the mobility of US merchant semiconductor inventors
Cheyre, Cristobal; Klepper, Steven; Veloso, Francisco - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 61 (2015) 3, pp. 487-506
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505848
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Spinoffs and parents in clusters : evidence from the Italian motorcycle industry
Capone, Gianluca; Morrison, Andrea - In: Industry and innovation 27 (2020) 10, pp. 1133-1159
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414848
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Performing in Dutch Book Publishing 1880-2008. The Importance of Entrepreneurial Experience and the Amsterdam Cluster
Heebels, Barbara; Boschma, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
This paper investigates the spatial clustering of the book publishing industry. By means of a hazard model, we examine the effect of agglomeration economies and pre-entry entrepreneurial experience on the survival chances of publishing firms. Whereas such survival analyses have been conducted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465122
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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent …-hopping for college-educated men in Silicon Valley's computer industry than in computer clusters located out of the state …. Mobility rates in other California computer clusters are similar to Silicon Valley's, suggesting some role for features of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272888
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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - EconWPA - 2005
supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent …-hopping for college-educated men in Silicon Valley’s computer industry than in computer clusters located out of the state …. Mobility rates in other California computer clusters are similar to Silicon Valley’s, suggesting some role for features of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556771