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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering : the evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993
Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010
There is little understanding of how clusters evolve, and where. While dynamic analyses of clusters hardly exist, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573190
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Guevara, Carolina; Riou, Stéphane; Autant-Bernard, Corinne - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an agglomeration is what really matters. There exists an ongoing debate between the predominance of the effects of agglomeration from specialization and diversity. This paper aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480264
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Exploring creative clusters using micro-geographic data
Chovanec, Martin; Rehák, Štefan - 2012
The paper focuses on the analysis of spatial clusters of creative industries in Slovakia using micro-geographic data … datasets resulted in re-discovery of sets of analytic techniques for identification of clusters based on distance metric. These … identifying clusters. In our analysis we analyse 46 434 firms from the INFOSTAT registry (2010), which were geo-coded by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514044
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Complex regional assessment possibilities of competitiveness of the information economy and society in Hungary : from regional statistics to regional policy
Jakobi, Ákos - 2012
Since ICT factors got growing importance in shaping social and economic differences, the determination of competitiveness in the information economy and society became needful in understanding modern regional disparities of Hungary. To evaluate recent inequalities caused by the factors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507852
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Economic and social motives of using geography-related information and communication technologies : a Japanese-Hungarian comparative study
Jakobi, Ákos - 2012
Theoretical as well as practical experiences of analyses confirmed that spatial processes of the diffusion of information and communication (ICT) technologies largely influenced the economy and society of the 21st century. In the last couple of years, a new motive of ICT-based inequalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509227
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The geography of French agricultural co-operatives : an explanatory spatial data analysis
Chantelot, Sébastien; Filippi, Maryline; Pérès, … - 2010 - Very first draft
several clusters of agricultural cooperatives. This article constitutes a first attempt in analyzing French agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574931
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Cluster activities in different institutional environments : case studies of ICT-clusters from Austria, Germany, Ukraine and Serbia : presented at: 56th ERSA Congress, 23 to 27 Aug...
Konstantynova, Anastasiia; Lehmann, Tine - 2016
In recent decades industrial clusters and agglomerations were recognized as drivers of regional and often national … mapping, establishment of institutions (labelled as cluster initiative/ association) in respective clusters through public … influenced by different sets of institutional framework conditions. Information and communication technologies (ICT) clusters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882528
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Institutional change and economic evolution in regions
Grillitsch, Markus - 2014
The overall objective of this paper is to contribute conceptually to the questions why and how regions transform and it joins the debate on economic evolution and institutional change. The paper addresses the challenge of how to conceptualise the interdependencies of institutions of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487791
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Related variety, unrelated variety and technological breakthroughs : an analysis of U.S. state-level patenting
Castaldi, Carolina; Frenken, Koen; Los, Bart - 2013
We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new technology. However, we also expect that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561289
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Tertiarisation and globalisation of productive systems : comparative analysis : ERSA Regions in motions : breaking the path : 52th European Congress of the Regional Science Associa...
Melikhova, Yulia; Camacho Ballesta, José A.; … - 2012
It is commonly known that the provision of services is currently carried out at a global level. Tertiary activities not only continuously increase their share in total employment and value added, but also in international trade and, as a consequence, in the processes of externationalisation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508123