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propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …
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This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 “Million-Rouble plants” in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the...
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propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482330
This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026413
The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic … the specialization of skills has a positive effect on the level on new firm entry in all sectors. In contrast to this, our … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …
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The “green” clusters are focused on the production of new ways of non-fossil fuel energy that help to diminish the greenhouse gases overall that human activity produces. The creation of such groups reveals a curious characteristic of the economic development: we will analyse the geographic...
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The “green” clusters are focused on the production of new ways of non-fossil fuel energy that help to diminish the greenhouse gases overall that human activity produces. The creation of such groups reveals a curious characteristic of the economic development: we will analyse the geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148979
The Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) and the clusters have become especially important in the economic development of policies and literature. After showing the RIS conceptual framework and the differences with the cluster framework, the paper presents the real difficulties for the RIS analysis...
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This paper examines the arguments underpinning the smart specialisation concept, an idea which originally emerged from the sectoral growth literature, and one which has recently been applied with to the regional policy context. The shift from a sectoral to a regional context appears prima facie...
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Theoretical analysis of the relevance of the concept of path dependence for regional analysis has made progress. This has occurred on the spatial process (or regional paradigm)dimension of spatial evolution Progress has also occurred after further reflections on the roles of ‘conventions’ in...
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