Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography

Giarratani, Frank; Hewings, Geoffrey J. D.; McCann, Philip

doi:10.4337/9781782549000

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“…Therefore, a vector of the 10 ranked scores (where lower is better) provides a simple signature for the innovation ecosystem of each and every city. In the case of San Francisco this vector is (181, 6, 89, 4, 75, 229, 15, 137, 87, 9) and in the case of Seattle this vector is (185, 10, 10, 10, 117, 104, 4, 91, 25,14), and these two large cities demonstrate a strong similarity in their overall innovative ecosystems-in fact a simple index can be calculated to measure the degree of this similarity. Clearly, though, the pattern of ranks in both of these vectors is very different from that of Kansas City, KS (81,322,14,28,148,44,25,107,133,38) or New York City, NY (144, 357, 69, 1, 125, 245, 235, 215, 337, 328).…”

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Metropolitan Innovation in the New Economy

2017

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This paper analyzes the high-tech economies of 350-plus metropolitan areas across the U.S. during 2010. Attention is given to 20 different production attributes-including the age and education of the workforce, patent production, business startups, per capita productivity of the workers, and the like. Multivariate analysis is used to reduce these 20 attributes down to 10 orthogonal dimensions; then the scores on these dimensions are used to identify eight different innovation and entrepreneurial clubs. Basically the exercise deconstructs the metropolitan economies into various parts so that each economy is assigned a signature score on each of the independent factors. High-tech places, which are especially active in both patents and startups, are shown to be more heterogeneous than low-tech places. Moreover, the recent growth and change seen in many metropolitan areas appears to be associated with the incidence of very different factors: population growth has been driven by forces that are different from those that have induced either employment change or productivity growth in those metropolitan areas.

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“…For present purposes three broad topics are briefly discussed: (i) the production and transfer of regional knowledge; (ii) entrepreneurship; and (iii) the role of networks and institutions. Most of this literature has been addressed in great detail in various chapters of several edited Handbooks [24][25][26][27].…”

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Metropolitan Innovation in the New Economy

2017

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“…Consistent with this definition, Industry Studies and Public Policy (IS&PP) researchers take a multi‐thematic approach to understanding firm‐ and industry‐level issues (Giarratani et al. , p. 3). The heritage of industry studies can be traced to Adam Smith (1723–1790), who established the scientific foundation of economics and its social effects by grounding his work in the direct observation of production processes.…”

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“…This approach has been deployed in disparate academic disciplines ranging from economic geography (Giarratani et al. ) to political economy (Berger ). The focus on contextual details creates a natural affinity for POM scholars who observe and theorize about operational decisions of an organization (e.g., a factory, hospital, retail store etc.…”

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The Role of Industry Studies and Public Policies in Production and Operations Management

Joglekar

Davies

Anderson

2016

Production and Operations Management

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The research domain Industry Studies and Public Policy (IS&PP) seeks to further our understanding of industrial practices and managerial challenges by explicitly considering contextual details in the design and interpretation of research studies. These details can be vital considerations when shaping public policies. This article reviews a sample of IS&PP publications and analyzes the content of 180 selected papers—85 papers published in the Production and Operations Management (POM) journal and 95 papers published in related journals between 1992 and 2014. Our analysis of the sample dataset and examination of exemplar papers provide four findings. First, studies in different industries emphasize different themes of operational decisions. This difference in emphasis reveals potential research opportunities, especially for conducting inter‐industry studies. Second, our analysis reveals a shift in focus over time. Earlier studies contain a mix of benchmarks and inter‐industry comparisons, while later studies tend to be context‐specific, intra‐industry studies. Third, we report on empirics → analytics → empirics cycles that reveal gaps for building novel theories. Finally, we observe that the relationship between POM decisions and public policy is bi‐directional. This highlights the need to jointly examine operational decisions with policy considerations, especially in information goods, healthcare, sustainable operations and high‐tech manufacturing industries.

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New forms of industrial districts

Bellandi

Propris

2017

Econ Polit Ind

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Policy makers can employ different instruments to address environmental policy objectives, and the guiding principles for a consistent system of environmental policy are (1) the policies should be effective, (2) there should be one objective per instrument, and (3) multiple objectives and multiple policy instruments must be mutually independent of each other. This paper evaluates these three principles for green public procurement (GPP). As an illustrative example, the analysis refers to the Swedish policy of using public purchase of organic foods as a policy instrument to increase the certified organic agricultural area as a share of the total agricultural area. Our analysis shows that GPP fails to satisfy principles (1) and (3), and the only way to satisfy principle (2) is then to have just one objective with the procurement, i.e., to run the operations. GPP might still have a positive environmental impact, but, if applied, the procuring authority has to be very specific with the one-to-one matching of criterion and objective.

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Handbook of Industry Studies and Economic Geography

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Metropolitan Innovation in the New Economy

Metropolitan Innovation in the New Economy

The Role of Industry Studies and Public Policies in Production and Operations Management

New forms of industrial districts

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