Economic Structure and Local Growth: France, 1984–1993

Combes, Pierre-Philippe

doi:10.1006/juec.1999.2143

“…Better territorial units used in the empirical literature are the functional urban region just for main urban centres at the European level (Cheshire, 1990 andCheshire andMagrini 2000), the local labour system in Italy (Paci and Usai, 1999), the basin d'emploi in France (Combes, 2000). 5 In future applications we will attempt to disaggregate some nations which are currently at the NUTS0 level (Finland, Denmark and Norway in particular).…”

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Spatial Spillovers and Innovation Activity in European Regions

Moreno

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Paci

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Usaï

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2005

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Raffaele Paci University of Cagliari and CRENoS Stefano Usai University of Sassari and CRENoS WP CRENoS 2003/10 December 2003 AbstractThis paper explores the spatial distribution of innovative activity and the role of technological spillovers in the process of knowledge creation across 138 regions of 17 countries in Europe (the 15 members of the European Union plus Switzerland and Norway). The analysis is based on an original statistical databank set up by CRENoS on regional patenting at the European Patent Office spanning from 1978 to 1997 and classified by ISIC sectors (3 digit). In a first step, a deep exploratory spatial data analysis of the dissemination of innovative activity in Europe is performed. Some global and local indicators for spatial association are presented, summarising the presence of a dependence process in the distribution of innovative activity for different periods and sectors. Secondly, we attempt to model the behaviour of innovative activity at the regional level on the basis of a knowledge production function. Econometric results points to the relevance of internal factors (R&D expenditure, economic performance, agglomeration economies). Moreover, the production of knowledge by European regions seems to be also affected by spatial spillovers due to innovative activity performed in other regions.

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“…The role of industry structures for economic development has been intensively discussed in the literature (Gleaser 1992;Henderson et al 1995;Combes 2000). A key issue in this debate is knowledge spillovers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Exceptions were new high-tech industries where Jacobs externalities appeared to be dominant. Combes (2000) in his analysis for France for the time period 1984-5 1993 found distinct effects for the manufacturing and the service sector.…”

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Related variety, unrelated variety and regional growth: the role of absorptive capacity and entrepreneurship

Fritsch

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Kublina

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2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular, we analyze the role of regional absorptive capacity and new business formation for these effects. We find that West German regions benefit from both types of varieties. The positive effect of unrelated variety on growth is more pronounced in regions with higher levels of absorptive capacity in terms of R&D activities and with higher levels of new business formation. Such moderating effects cannot be found for related variety.

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“…Empirical results have been heterogeneous and, while industrial concentrations have not always been registered in a positive relationship with growth, it is diversity and competition that are more the main factors advancing growth. In fact, many authors identify an alternative relationship between industrial specialization and growth, often depending on local industry life cycles and size (Combes, 2000;Rosenthal & Strange, 2004). Most studies on spillovers, in any case, are unanimous in their conclusions that either intra-industry or inter-industry externalities are important and are strongly bounded in space (Feldman, 1999).…”

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Spatial Spillovers and Employment Dynamics in Local Tourist Systems in Italy (1991–2001)

Lazzeretti

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Capone

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2009

European Planning Studies

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Tourism has been an important main industry in the world economy for many decades. While its importance is recognized, the study of the reasons why some tourist destinations expand and grow faster than others as well as the main factors affecting these dynamics is underdeveloped. The aim of this paper is to analyse the factors affecting the long-period occupational dynamics of the Italian local tourist system, taking into consideration the existence of spatial spillovers. For instance, with other considerations being equal, tourist systems that are close to localities with a high growth rate in fact tend to be more developed. The opposite is true for localities with low-growth neighbouring systems. This paper therefore provides an interesting perspective on the development of tourism-dependent regions, in light of tourism being one of the most important economic sectors and yet the least explored within a regional development framework.

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Economic Structure and Local Growth: France, 1984–1993

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Spatial Spillovers and Innovation Activity in European Regions

Related variety, unrelated variety and regional growth: the role of absorptive capacity and entrepreneurship

Spatial Spillovers and Employment Dynamics in Local Tourist Systems in Italy (1991–2001)

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