Into the First League: The Competitive Advantage of the Antivirus Industry in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Beblavý, Miroslav; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna

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“…There are several reasons why we picked Praha, Brno, and Ostrava for the case study. These cities represent three types of positions in the hierarchy of the settlement system: Praha is a global gama city with a strong capital effect and a high share of knowledge-intensive business services (finance, media) [76]; Brno is a successfully transformed second-tier metropolitan city with a high concentration of universities and successfully developing IT sector [77], while Ostrava is a shrinking city, the core of a metropolitan old industrial region that is still quite heavily specialized in traditional heavy manufacturing industries. Secondly, Praha and Brno differ significantly from Ostrava in urban morphology.…”

Section: Case Studies Of Praha Brno and Ostrava: Characteristics Andmentioning

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Spatial Patterns of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Cities of Various Sizes, Morphologies and Economies

2020

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We compare intra-urban localization patterns of advertising and IT companies in three large Czech cities. The main aim of our analysis is an empirically-based contribution to the question to what extent do knowledge bases affect the spatial distribution of various knowledge-intensive business industries. The central research question is: To what extent is the localization of these two industries influenced by different modes of innovation/knowledge bases (symbolic vs. synthetic) and to what extent by contextual factors, such as urban size, morphology, position in the urban hierarchy and economic profile of the given city. We found that the urban contexts shape the localization patterns of advertising and IT companies more than differences in knowledge bases-both industries cluster primarily in the inner cities and urban cores. Formation of more suburban IT "scientific neighborhoods" is limited. significantly to the economic transformation of formerly industrial cities (considering IT, Brno is now the most specialized city in Czechia and Ostrava is the third) [13][14][15].Advertising is a representative of KIBS with a purely symbolic knowledge base. These companies should require tight geographical proximity to their customers, suppliers or rivals [16,17], and cluster in urban cores and dense inner cities, close to the headquarters of large corporations and public institutions. By contrast, services with a predominantly synthetic knowledge base (such as IT) rely primarily on knowledge sourcing and innovation collaboration with partners inside value chains, which are not necessarily local [18,19]. IT companies should, thus, exhibit more dispersed spatial patterns (However, Zook [20] documented clustering of internet companies in the inner city, close to the financial institutions, Spencer [12] also noted this possible location pattern), although they may cluster at the neighborhood level as well [12].Méndez-Ortega and Arauzo-Carod [21] stated that " . . . in addition to industry-specific characteristics that determine some external requirements by these firms (such as accessibility to skilled labour or specialized IT suppliers), there are some city-specific characteristics (e.g., urban policies, spatial distribution of economic activity) that also matter, and which shape the location decisions taken by these firms." We aim to analyze exactly these city-specific characteristics and their effects on the spatial distribution of firms. Our central research question is: To what extent are localization patterns of selected KIBS influenced by their distinct modes of innovation (knowledge bases) and to what extent by the city-specific characteristics?Funding: This research wJan Žas funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports through a research grant "SMART technologies to improve the quality of life in cities and regions" (no.

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Section: Case Studies Of Praha Brno and Ostrava: Characteristics Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Patterns of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Cities of Various Sizes, Morphologies and Economies

2020

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“…The individual-level perspective considers entrepreneurs to act independently and compete to be the first in the market while launching their product or service (Shane, 2003). Even though entrepreneurs as individuals are essential, the consideration of the collective processes of entrepreneurship in the context of an organizational community cannot be ignored (Beblavy and Kurekova, 2014;Mezias and Kuperman, 2001). SM have been acknowledged for playing an integral role in motivating and facilitating entrepreneurial activity in emerging areas; they have enabled entrepreneurship through activities such as framing problems, theorizing solutions, and mobilizing resources to support economic activities (Durand and Georgallis, 2018).…”

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Understanding industry emergence through entrepreneurship from a social movement perspective

Lechner

Pervaiz

2021

Competition & Change

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Industry emergence is a complex phenomenon. The entrepreneurship literature has been characterized by individualistic explanations (‘hero’ entrepreneurs), complemented by institutional approaches. Sociology studies can offer alternative explanations for industry emergence. We draw from the concepts of Social Movements to frame the process of industry emergence in its initial phase. We synthesize the theoretical research on social movements, entrepreneurship, and industry emergence in an effort to develop a conceptual framework to improve our understanding of the pre-emergence of an industry. Our main contribution lies in understanding entrepreneurship, and thus industry emergence, as a community process in which multiple actors eventually result in a reduced number of early start-ups, which gives rise to a new industry. In addition, we propose that the type of movement will lead to different enablers and barriers to industry emergence.

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“…The IT industry is a high value-added sector. The possibility of selling products online further decreases 'export' costs and the time to market a product, and revolutionizes the possibilities of and approaches to PR and marketing (Beblavý & Kureková, 2014). The ICT has provided both tourists and destinations new channels through which to empower their communication process while reducing search and distribution costs.…”

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ICT as a factor of destination competitiveness: The case of the republics of former Yugoslavia

Milićević

Petrović

Đorđević

2020

Management &Amp; Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Information and communication technology (ICT) on the competitiveness of the republics of former Yugoslavia (Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia) as tourism destinations. This paper relies on the correlation analysis and panel regression method. Regression analysis has examined the impact of the ICT on the competitiveness of the republics of Former Yugoslavia (Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia) as tourism destinations. The destination competitiveness is measured by international tourist arrivals and international tourism receipts, while the ICT is measured by the ICT Development Index (IDI). The results indicate that the IDI use has a significant impact on the number of international tourist arrivals and an indirect positive impact on the international tourism receipts. The originality of the research lies in the fact there are no previous studies about the impact of ICT on the competitiveness of the republics of former Yugoslavia as tourism destinations. This study contributes to a better understanding of the impact of ICT on the competitiveness of a tourism destination by linking the IDI with tourist arrivals and tourism revenues.

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Into the First League: The Competitive Advantage of the Antivirus Industry in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Spatial Patterns of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Cities of Various Sizes, Morphologies and Economies

Spatial Patterns of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Cities of Various Sizes, Morphologies and Economies

Understanding industry emergence through entrepreneurship from a social movement perspective

ICT as a factor of destination competitiveness: The case of the republics of former Yugoslavia

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