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An Empirical Model of Industry Dynamics with Common Uncertainty and Learning from the Actions of Competitors

Yang, Nathan - NET Institute - 2011

This paper advances our collective knowledge about the role of learning in retail agglomeration. Uncertainty about new markets provides an opportunity for sequential learning, where one firm's past entry decisions signal to others the potential profitability of risky markets. The setting is...

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Industry Concentration and Regional Innovative Performance – Empirical Evidence for Eastern Germany

Schwartz, Michael; Hornych, Christoph - 2009

Regarding technological innovativeness, the transformed economy of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) clearly lags behind the Western part of the country. To face this weakness, a broad mixture of policy measures was carried out in recent years. Particular attention is drawn to the...

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Critical surveys edited by Stephen Roper innovation and space: A critical review of the literature

Simmie, James - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 6, pp. 789-804

Simmie J. (2005) Innovation and space: a critical review of the literature. Regional Studies 39 , 789-804. This review … examines the relationships between innovation and space. It does so by tracing the historical development of innovation theory … about why the firms, organizations and institutions located in a minority of city-regions generate so much more innovation …

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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

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Spinoffs and Clustering

Golman, Russell; Klepper, Steven - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

model, firms grow and spinoffs form through the discovery of new submarkets based on innovation. Rapid and successful … innovation creates more opportunities for spinoff entry and drives a region’s growth. …

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The Role of Agglomeration and Technology in Shaping Firm Strategy and Organization

Cainelli, Giulio; Iacobucci, Donato - 2006

Over the last few years a growing number of contributions have shown that the presence of business groups, i.e. sets of firms legally distinct but belonging to the same owner(s), is significant. From a theoretical point of view, this presence poses the question of whether the group or the single...

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Agglomeration effects of inter-firm backward and forward linkages: evidence from Japanese manufacturing investment in China

Yamashita, Nobuaki; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Nakajima, Kentaro - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper examines the agglomeration effects of multinational firms on the location decisions of first-time Japanese manufacturing investors in China for the period 1995-2007. This is accomplished by exploiting newly constructed measures of inter-firm backward and forward linkages formed in a...

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Agglomeration effects of inter-firm backward and forward linkages: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing investment in China

Yamashita, Nobuaki; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Nakajima, Kentaro - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 34 (2014) C, pp. 24-41

This paper examines the agglomeration effects of multinational firms on the location decisions of first-time Japanese manufacturing investors in China for the period 1995–2007. This is accomplished by exploiting newly constructed measures of inter-firm backward and forward linkages formed in a...

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Learning and Agglomeration in Industrial Networks

Nicolini, Rosella - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1998

The main aim of this study is to evaluate the nature and the dynamics of agglomeration forces inside specific network structures like industrial districts. Firms seem to be attracted in these locations by the opportunity of exploiting the advantages of an inter-firm coordinating structure. This...

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Plant Productivity, Keiretsu, and Agglomeration in the Japanese Automobile Industry: An Empirical Analysis Based on Micro-Data of Census of Manufactures 1981-1996

Ito, Keiko - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2004

Using plant-level data underlying the Census of Manufactures, total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its determinants are analyzed for the Japanese automobile industry since 1980s. The average annual TFP growth rate from 1981 to 1996 was only about 0.6 percent for the automobile assembly...

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