In the last decade, the number of logistic service providers located in clusters across Europe has increased substantially. Because location choice models in logistics studies are not able to give a satisfactory explanation for this phenomenon, various spatial economic concepts are studied in...

The location of high-tech firms is important for both regional and national economic development. As low-wage manufacturing industries move out of industrialized countries, attempts are made to stimulate high-tech sectors. While the process of high-tech industrial development in some countries...

With rising labor costs in China, some scholars assert that China's labor-intensive industries will succumb to latecomer economies, and China's era as the "workshop of the world" will end. There is, however, little agreement regarding whether labor-intensive industries, now concentrated in...

The location of facilities in order to provide service for customers is a well-studied problem in the operations research literature. In this paper, we establish strong connextions between fair cost allocations and linear programming relaxations for several variants of the facility location...

This paper examines the role of pre-1939 British industrial estates as new industrial districts for rapid growth industries. Closely associated with 'new' industries and highly concentrated in the South East, industrial estates rapidly expanded to accomodate plant employing around 285 000 people...

In this paper the reaction of firms to the introduction of environmental charges in a given industry is analysed. Firms may decide either to relocate their plants abroad or to adopt a new environmental-friendly technology. The latter can be either developed by investing in R&D or obtained by...

This paper considers a model of oligopolistic competition and locational choice that incorporates the notion of regional industrial systems. Firms play a non cooperative game where the strategy set of firms is given by a set of existing industrial districts. Each firm is distinguished by its...

This paper analyzes a three-stage game where two firms choose (i) their respective technology, by deciding on a level of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a local plant and (iii) the quantity produced and sold on the market. If technology transfer costs are...