Agglomeration Economies or Selection? An Analysis of Taiwanese Science Parks

Hasan, Syed M.; Faggian, Alessandra; Klaiber, H. Allen; Sheldon, Ian M.

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“…Some researches indicate that massive infrastructure development, particularly transportation infrastructures, lead to increase the economic concentration (Ding, 2013;Turguttopbas, 2016), this is due to the decline of transport cost of firm and investments. In addition, intensive technology development also has a positive relationship to the economic concentration due to increased firm productivity (Hasan, Faggian, Klaiber, & Sheldon, 2016). In contrast, (Bertinelli & Strobl, 2007) states that economic concentrations impact on economic growth, which in turn, the economic will more concentrated.…”

Section: Geographical Economic Concentration Analysismentioning

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Geographical Economic Concentration, Growth and Decentralization: Empirical Evidence in Aceh, Indonesia

Jamal

2017

JEP

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This study aims to analyze the geographical economic concentration (GEC) in Aceh Province. The Decomposition AGC Index and secondary data for the period 2001-2013 are used in the analysis. The results showed that the GEC in Aceh Province tend to decline about -7.09 percents a year. But, since 2011 the growth increased about 1.27 percent a year. It showed five phases of changes of GEC. When the Aceh Province was proliferated from 13 to 23 districts, economic growth was not driving factor for economic concentration, but as a driving for de-concentration. Government spending density is significant for economic concentration driver, both in the period 2001-2007, and 2008-2013. Government spending per capita is the driven factor for economic concentration during the period 2008-2013. As well in Aceh-13 (period 2001-2013). This suggests that direct government expenditure to be important in developing the center of economic growth in Aceh Province.

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Section: Geographical Economic Concentration Analysismentioning

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Geographical Economic Concentration, Growth and Decentralization: Empirical Evidence in Aceh, Indonesia

Jamal

2017

JEP

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“…Furthermore, the agglomeration benefits of CIs are likely to decay quickly with distance, which in turn explains why CIs cluster at a finer scale. Empirical evidence has been provided for the US (Arzaghi & Henderson, 2008), the UK (Graham et al, 2010), Spain (Coll‐Martínez et al, 2019), and India (Hasan et al, 2018). Research also proposes approaches to mitigate the rapid spatial decay of agglomeration effects.…”

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“…Combes et al (2012), Accetturo et al (2018), and Kondo (2016) find that agglomeration economies rather than firm selection explain the productivity advantage of large cities for manufacturing industries in France, Italy, and Japan, respectively. However, both agglomeration and selection effects are shown to be important in determining the distribution of firm productivity for manufacturing industries in China (Ding & Niu, 2019; Howell et al, 2020) and for the prewar silk‐reeling Japan (Arimoto et al, 2014) and for science parks in Taiwan (Hasan et al, 2018). However, these papers mostly focus on manufacturing industries.…”

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Productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries

Sheng

2022

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper examines the productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries (CIs) in China. Using Chinese firm‐level data for CIs from 2012 to 2014, we find that agglomeration economies, rather than firm selection, determine the difference between the productivity distributions of CIs in large and small cities. There are heterogeneous effects of agglomeration economies, with stronger impacts on productive firms and firms in broadcasting and TV & film. We also find that the productivity advantage of large cities for CIs is stronger when the cities have better communication and transportation infrastructure. Our results imply that the efficacy of place‐based policies for developing CIs depends on local infrastructure.

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“…However, it should be noted that manufacturing agglomeration does not always have a positive impact on innovation. Hasan et al [39] reported that the geographical proximity of enterprises would generate competition, which might offset the benefits of agglomeration. If the agglomeration is excessive, vicious competition and crowding effect will occur, and the negative externalities of agglomeration on innovation will hinder the promotion of EIE.…”

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Impacts of Manufacturing Specialized and Diversified Agglomeration on the Eco-Innovation Efficiency—A Nonlinear Test from Dynamic Perspective

Zhang

Rongping

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Sustainability

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Eco-innovation is the main driver of realizing the coordinated development of resource, environmental and economic systems. This paper measures regional eco-innovation efficiency (EIE) by using the Super-Slack Based Measure (SBM) model with undesirable outputs and distinguishes different agglomeration patterns based on Chinese data of 21 manufacturing sub-industries of 30 provinces. In particular, from the perspective of the dynamic evolution of manufacturing agglomeration, the nonlinear effects of specialized and diversified agglomeration on EIE are investigated based on panel threshold regression models. The results indicate that China’s EIE shows a U-shaped changing trend. The impacts of specialized and diversified agglomeration on EIE are nonlinear and have significant three-threshold effects. There exist a U-shaped relationship between specialized agglomeration and EIE, and an S-shaped relationship between diversified agglomeration and EIE. In terms of eco-innovation, the development of diversified agglomeration is superior to that of specialized agglomeration. Overall, there is still much room for more than 70% of provinces in China to increase their EIE by optimizing the layout of manufacturing specialized and diversified agglomeration. To improve the EIE and achieve sustainable economic growth, differentiated agglomeration policies should be formulated in various stages and regions. In addition, the driving mechanism of eco-innovation should be strengthened.

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Agglomeration Economies or Selection? An Analysis of Taiwanese Science Parks

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Geographical Economic Concentration, Growth and Decentralization: Empirical Evidence in Aceh, Indonesia

Geographical Economic Concentration, Growth and Decentralization: Empirical Evidence in Aceh, Indonesia

Productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries

Impacts of Manufacturing Specialized and Diversified Agglomeration on the Eco-Innovation Efficiency—A Nonlinear Test from Dynamic Perspective

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