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the period 2004-2006 opened a huge national-wide clustering movement. Several tens of cluster initiatives have been … reviews and summarizes developments of cluster policies in the Czech Republic at both national and regional levels and …
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management (e.g. resource-based view) and the economic geography literature (e.g. cluster approach), variables from three … from revealing that being located in a cluster indeed increases on average firm innovativeness, one of the central findings … is that firms benefit unequally within the cluster environment depending on the specific firm-level, cluster …
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This paper evaluates the effect of the French enterprise zone program on residents of these deprived neighborhoods. A second contribution is the evaluation of the composition effects in the zones and of externalities on the neighbors of the enterprise zones. The third contribution is the...
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Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries … era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it can contribute to the creation of employment and to the … initiation of growth processes in urban regions and even in some rural ones. This makes cluster policy an interesting tool for …
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Throughout the second half of the 20th Century, urbanization, new technologies, rapid labor-saving productivity growth in primary industries, and improved highways combined to create large-scale rural-urban functionally integrated regions. These forces have raised the stakes for regions in their...
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management (e.g. resource-based view) and the economic geography literature (e.g. cluster approach), variables from three … from revealing that being located in a cluster indeed increases on average firm innovativeness, one of the central findings … is that firms benefit unequally within the cluster environment depending on the specific firm-level, cluster …
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This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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MFA (Minimal Flow Analysis) is a method of qualitative input-output analysis used for identifying national of regional industrial clusters. It is based on the analysis of layers (in an input-output model, flow matrices generated at each iteration toward equilibrium). We show through theory that...
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This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168211
This report presents the findings of three case studies of lagging regions in the EU to deepen the findings of wiiw Research Reports 421 to 423. The three (NUTS 2) case study regions are the Italian Campania, the Portuguese Norte and the Romanian Nord-Est region. While each of these regions...
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