Search Results - subject:"spatial agglomeration"

Do Agglomeration and Technology Affect Vertical Integration? Evidence from Italian Business Groups

Cainelli, Giulio; Iacobucci, Donato - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 16 (2009) 3, pp. 305-322

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of technology and spatial agglomeration in decisions about vertical … endogeneity problems, we estimate Probit and Linear Probability models to investigate the role of technology and spatial … agglomeration on vertical integration decisions empirically. Consistent with property rights theory, our results show that the …

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Spatial agglomeration and business groups: New evidence from Italian industrial districts

Cainelli, Giulio; Iacobucci, Donato; Morganti, Enrica - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 5, pp. 507-518

Cainelli G., Iacobucci D. and Morganti E. (2006) Spatial agglomeration and business groups: new evidence from Italian …-district areas. Overall, the results confirm the hypothesis that spatial agglomeration of business activities influences firms … industrial districts, Regional Studies 40, 507-518. This paper is a first attempt to analyse the relationship between spatial …

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Identification of Local Industrial Clusters in Germany

Brenner, Thomas - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 9, pp. 991-1004

Brenner T. (2006) Identification of local industrial clusters in Germany, Regional Studies 40, 1-14. This paper presents a method that allows local industrial clusters to be identified and applies this method to Germany. The method is applied to all three-digit manufacturing industries in...

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The Spatial Clustering of Science and Capital: Accounting for Biotech Firm-Venture Capital Relationships

Powell, Walter; Koput, Kenneth; Bowie, James; … - In: Regional Studies 36 (2002) 3, pp. 291-305

This paper focuses on the spatial concentration of two essential factors of production in the commercial field of biotechnology: ideas and money. The location of both research-intensive biotech firms and the venture capital firms that fund biotech is highly clustered in a handful of key US...

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The Impact of History on the Emergence of Localised Industrial Clusters - An Simulation Approach

Brenner, Thomas - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2002

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THE EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS — SIMULATING SPATIAL DYNAMICS

BRENNER, THOMAS; WEIGELT, NIELS - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 04 (2001) 01, pp. 127-147

Industrial clusters have received much attention in economic research in the last decade. They are seen as one of the reasons for the economic success of certain regions in comparison to others. This paper studies the evolution of such industrial clusters. To this end, a spatial structure of...

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Knowledge Spillovers and the Growth of Local Industries

Forni, Mario; Paba, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The literature on localised knowledge spillovers and growth focuses on the relative importance of intra vs. inter-industry externalities, but the nature and the characteristics of the dynamic linkages across manufacturing sectors are not investigated. In this Paper we perform a very...

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The Geography of Innovation: A Cross-sector Analysis

Breschi, Stefano - In: Regional Studies 34 (2000) 3, pp. 213-229

BRESCHI S. (2000) The geography of innovation: a cross-sector analysis, Reg. Studies 34 , 213-229. This paper attempts to identify some broad empirical regularities in the geographical distribution of innovative activities. The basic hypothesis which is advanced is that spatial patterns of...

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Location as a Signal of Quality

Vettas, Nikolaos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

explanation for spatial agglomeration based on incomplete information considerations. Because it is less costly for a high …

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