La formación y consolidación de las ciudades es un fenómeno que está ligado a los contactosentre seres humanos. Estas interacciones generan externalidades dinámicas de aglomeración. Eneste trabajo se intenta analizar el impacto que dichas externalidades tienen en el desempeño de...

Las ciudades son sin lugar a dudas el espacio por excelencia para el desarrollo de las actividades humanas, si bien su formación obedece a factores históricos e incluso fortuitos, su desarrollo y crecimiento y por ende su éxito está estrechamente ligado a las fuerzas de aglomeración. Este...

Este trabajo examina la existencia de un crecimiento económico balanceado o no balanceado a nivel regional y su incidencia sobre los movimientos de población en el país. Para el período 1975-1998 se encuentra que las mayores tasas de crecimiento sectorial se concentraron en la parte centro y...

El artículo analiza la incidencia que ha tenido la competencia intra-industria y las aglomeraciones empresariales a nivel regional en el crecimiento económico de la industria de fabricación de alimentos de Colombia. El estudio se basa en las teorías de la transferencia de conocimientos entre...

In this paper, we analyze the changes in the Chilean economy specialization patterns mainly in the period of fastest economic growth and taking into account its relative abundance of productive factors. There are three important findings in this paper that are relevant for natural resources...

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...

Local industrial clusters have attracted much attention in the recent economic and geographical literature. A huge number of case studies have been conducted. This paper presents a meta-analysis of the case studies of 159 local industrial clusters in various countries and industries. Based on an...

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of new business formation in innovative industries. The analysis is for German regions and covers the time period 1907-2014. We find a pronounced positive relationship between high...

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...