The new geography of corporate research in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Cantwell, John; Santangelo, Grazia D.

doi:10.1007/s00191-002-0109-9

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“…This brings up a range of issues that are very relevant to an evolutionary approach in economic geography, for example: what kind of strategies do MNEs follow to overcome geographical and other barriers in order to access distant knowledge bases, and how can host regions successfully benefit from incoming MNEs in terms of knowledge transfer (see e.g. Morgan, 1997;Cantwell and Santangelo, 2002;Morrison, 2008)? And crucial for an evolutionary approach, what are the dynamics in the relationship between MNEs and the host regions (e.g.…”

Section: Firm Dynamics Industrial Dynamics and Spatial Clusteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Boschma¹,

Martin²

2010

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

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This aim of this paper is to present the objectives and scope of an evolutionary approach to economic geography. We argue that the goal is not only to utilise the concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics (and evolutionary thinking more broadly) to help interpret and explain how the economic landscape changes over historical time, but also to reveal how situating the economy in space adds to our understanding of the processes that drive economic evolution, that is to say, to demonstrate how geography matters in determining the nature and trajectory of evolution of the economic system. We will argue that evolutionary economic geography is concerned with the spatialities of economic novelty; with how the spatial structures of the economy emerge from the micro-behaviours of economic agents; with how, in the absence of central coordination or direction, the economic landscape exhibits self-organisation; and with how the processes of path creation and path dependence interact to shape geographies of economic development and transformation, and why and how such processes may themselves be place dependent. Economic transformation proceeds differently in different places, and the mechanisms involved neither originate nor operate evenly across space. Our concern is both with the ways in which the forces making for economic change, adaptation and novelty shape and reshape the geographies of wealth creation, work and welfare, and with how the spatial structures and features so produced themselves feed back to influence the forces driving economic evolution. In the final part, we summarize a number of papers that have contributed to evolutionary economic geography, and which will be published in The Handbook on Evolutionary Economic Geography that is edited by the two authors, and forthcoming at Edward Elgar.

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Section: Firm Dynamics Industrial Dynamics and Spatial Clusteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Boschma¹,

Martin²

2010

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

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“…While several scholars have asserted that adverse selection may operate within clusters (Oakey and Cooper, 1989;Shaver and Flyer, 2000a, b;Cantwell and Santangelo, 2002;Fosfuri and Ronde, 2004), the empirical evidence is not conclusive since the existing studies have not tracked firms over time. New studies can observe firm performance before and after cluster entry, and evaluate whether the firm's relative knowledge endowment prior to entering the cluster influences the impact that cluster participation has on the firm's innovative performance.…”

Section: More Robust Performance Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multinational Enterprises and the Geographical Clustering of Innovation

Mudambi

Swift

2012

Industry and Innovation

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Research on the geographic clustering of economic activity dates back to the early twentieth century. It is recognized that in spite of advances in transportation and communications, clustering remains most critical, and is consequently prevalent, in knowledge-intensive fields. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) that increasingly base their value creation and competitive advantage on knowledge-intensive activities are key participants in clusters, affecting both the nature and intertemporal evolution of local innovative activities. However, the role of MNEs in clusters remains under-researched. This paper traces the origins of research on geographic clusters, identifies the seminal contributions focusing on the role of MNEs, discusses potential problems inherent to this area of inquiry and develops an organizing framework for new research.

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“…These trends call for global restructuring for the purpose of more effective crossborder integration. Cantwell and Santangelo (2000) show that a change occurred between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s in terms of the balance between diversification and rationalization in large companies. Large corporate groups attempted to reach an "optimum" balance between the extent of diversity and integration of their intangible assets, by pursuing a more related type of diversification.…”

Section: New Communications and Cross-border Restructuringmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Hitt, Hoskisson and Kim (1997) confirm this viewpoint by showing that international diversification is positively related to R&D-intensity. Nonetheless, Cantwell and Santangelo (2001) provide empirical evidence that a distinction has to be made between close and loose relatedness. In that distinction, the former allows for cooperation, while the latter encourages competition due to the coincidence of the markets in which firms operate.…”

Section: Technological Relatednessmentioning

confidence: 98%

M&As AND THE GLOBAL STRATEGIES OF TNCs

Cantwell

Santangelo²

2002

The Developing Economies

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MOST of the motivations for M&As that feature in the global strategies of transnational corporations (TNCs) are a means of reshaping competitive advantages within their respective industries. They have some effect on the TNCs of all or most industries and so to that extent they are not necessarily sector-specific. However, it may be that some of the motives which we outline affect some industries more than others, and in that sense they can be expected to be associated with a greater intensity of M&As in certain sectors than others. We identify the likelihood of M&As across industries, and discuss how the general factors that have promoted the recent M&A wave have had a bigger impact on the global strategies of TNCs in the industries in which the propensity to engage in M&As has been the highest. The regional dimension is also considered.

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The new geography of corporate research in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Cited by 57 publications

References 41 publications

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Multinational Enterprises and the Geographical Clustering of Innovation

M&As AND THE GLOBAL STRATEGIES OF TNCs

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