Firm Demography and Regional Development: Evidence from Italy

Piacentino, Davide; Espa, Giuseppe; Filipponi, Danila; Giuliani, Diego

doi:10.1111/grow.12172

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“…The entry and survival of innovative firms and their performance are often seen as key components of the regional development (Fritsch & Storey, ; Piacentino, Espa, Filipponi, & Giuliani, ). As these firms provide employment for highly skilled workers, they might contribute to halting brain drain and to even attract talent from outside the region (Meili & Shearmur, ).…”

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Innovation in the periphery: Compensation and exploitation strategies

Eder

Trippl

2019

Growth and Change

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Recent research has challenged the urban bias in economic geography and innovation studies, showing that highly innovative and competitive firms are also located in peripheral regions. So far, however, analyses has focused on how firms innovate despite their unfavourable location and little has been said about the innovation benefits of peripheral areas. Hence, this article identifies different compensation and exploitation strategies adopted by firms in order to overcome regional innovation constraints and to reap innovation benefits found in the periphery. Drawing on 20 in‐depth qualitative interviews with innovative firms situated in the Austrian periphery, our analysis reveals that innovation in peripheral regions is the outcome of a combination of compensation and exploitation practices. The uptake and composition of these strategies depend on the firm and regional characteristics, with firm size being the most influential factor.

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Innovation in the periphery: Compensation and exploitation strategies

Eder

Trippl

2019

Growth and Change

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“…Urbanization usually has a positive impact on new business formation and survival. For example, using Italian data, Piacentino et al (2017) find that urbanization positively influences new business formation not only directly but also indirectly due to its relation with the innovative activity of firms. However, this result could not be confirmed in our study.…”

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The effect of agglomeration economies and geography on the survival of accommodation businesses in Sicily

Piacentino

Aronica

Giuliani

et al. 2020

Spatial Economic Analysis

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The study explores the geographical pattern of the accommodation industry in the Italian insular region of Sicily, focusing on the determinants of the risk of market exit. We adopt a standard framework of business survival analysis where agglomeration economies play an important role. We then extend the analysis by considering the role of geography to explore whether the risk of market exit depends on nearness to desirable amenities. The geography is here measured by the distance from the coast and the altitude of the place where the firm is located. When we look at the entire population of accommodation firms that started between 2010 and 2014, we find evidence that the risk of failure increases for those which are over 2 km from the coast.

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“…In particular, further research is needed to include spatial interactions and/or labour productivity changes in the context of MFP. Another interesting development would be to consider entry and exit flows separately as in Piacentino et al ().…”

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Employment Growth by Firm Size During the Recent Crisis in Italy: A Multifactor Partitioning Analysis

Bianchi¹,

Biffignandi²

2018

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The effects on employment growth in firms, grouped by size class, of the economic crisis that began in 2008 are analysed using multifactor partitioning (MFP). Italy's employment growth is decomposed into four explanatory factors: the stage in the business cycle; the effect of firm size; industry composition; and regional distribution; together with the interactions among these four effects. The interpretation of these effects is facilitated by the introduction within the MFP framework of a new decomposition of several key elements. The results show that the adopted approach and the suggested decompositions are useful to study the effect of size on employment change. This effect is found to be negative only for micro units (with less than 10 employees). For the other classes, it is positive. The observed negative changes in these classes are mainly due to the business cycle and an unfavourable industrial composition.

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Firm Demography and Regional Development: Evidence from Italy

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Innovation in the periphery: Compensation and exploitation strategies

Innovation in the periphery: Compensation and exploitation strategies

The effect of agglomeration economies and geography on the survival of accommodation businesses in Sicily

Employment Growth by Firm Size During the Recent Crisis in Italy: A Multifactor Partitioning Analysis

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