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The international competitiveness of cava: success of a particular firm or the district ?

Valls-Junyent, Francesc - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2009

should it be attributed to the whole industrial cava cluster around the area of Sant Sadurni dAnoia? More than two thirds of … explanation of the development of the industrial cava cluster in the main and well-kwown viticultural Catalan area of Penedes …

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Competitividade e potencial de crescimento do cluster de produtores de moldes para a indústria do plástico de Joinville [Competitiveness and growth potential of the cluster of mold...

Resende, Marco Flávio da Cunha; Gomes, Jefferson de … - In: Nova Economia 14 (2004) 1, pp. 67-104

geographic concentration of firms is a cluster, the potential growth and competitiveness of the firms increase. This paper sought … to determine whether this geographic concentration of firms was in effect a cluster, and to study its potential of growth … does represent a cluster and has significant growth potential. However, this cluster is less developed and less competitive …

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Economic Ecosystems

Auerswald, Philip E. - 2019

In this paper we review the concept of ecosystems as applied to economic geography. We argue that taking the metaphor of the ecosystem more literally than has been done in the past may advance understanding of economic systems at the regional scale. We define an economic ecosystem as a...

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Une approche territoriale du développement industriel : la microélectronique dans l'Aire Métropolitaine Marseillaise

Rychen, Frédéric; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoît - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2001) 1, pp. 115-133

After a long period of building, the microelectronics cluster in the Marseilles Metropolitan Area appears to have …

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Who to pay for performance? The choice of organisational level for hospital performance incentives

Kristensen, Soren Rud; Bech, Mickael; Lauridsen, Jørgen T - Center for Sundhedsøkonomisk Forskning (COHERE), … - 2013

When implementing a pay for performance (P4P) scheme, designers must decide to whom the nancial incentive for performance should be directed. This paper compares department level hospital reported performance on the Danish Case Management Scheme at hospitals that did and did not redistribute...

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Regional distribution of technology-intensive manufacturing industries in the czech republic with an accent on risk of delocalisation

Ženka, Jan; Čadil, Vladislav - In: Prague Economic Papers 2009 (2009) 1, pp. 61-77

The goal of this article is to determine whether low capital intensive firms, characterised by low productivity and low level of R&D activities that operate in technologically intensive branches of the Czech manufacturing industry, tend to be localised in economically lagging regions which are...

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Spatial division of labor in Chile 1992-2002

Atienza, Miguel; Lufin, Marcelo; Sarrias, Mauricio - Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional, Facultad de … - 2012

The article describes functional specialization of the Chilean municipalities ("comunas"), controlling for their industrial mix between 1992 and 2002 with information from the Population and Housing Censuses. The analysis of global and local spatial auto-correlation of indices of functional...

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Technology and Knowledge Based Business in the Cambridge Area : A Review of Evidence

Heffernan, Paul; Garnsey, Elizabeth W. - 2013

The area around the city of Cambridge (the Cambridge Sub-Region) was the first centre of hightech activity to emerge around a university in Europe and remains one of the most active. It is seen both as a model for others to follow and as a source of increasing prosperity for the region and...

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Diversity, Economic Webs, and Growth

Auerswald, Philip E.; Kauffman, Stuart; Lobo, José - 2009

In this paper we build upon work by Jacobs (1961, 1963, 1984) and Glaeser et al. (1993) to derive the following hypothesis: diversity of economic agents is conducive to innovation, and thus to growth. We present a simple model of a small open economy existing in a world where prices are fixed...

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Food Waste Management : 3R Approach in Selected Family-Owned Restaurants

Immanuel, Mario; Hartopo, Rafica; Anantadjaya, Samuel P. D. - 2013

Food waste is an interesting area to evaluate. Studies by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) revealed that 34 million tons of food was wasted in 2010. Food waste has a direct impact to a country’s economy, including environmental consequences. Substantial reduction...

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