The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

Storper, Michael; Kemeny, Thomas; Osman, Taner

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“…New agglomerated industries do not just appear anywhere: they seem to be captured by certain kinds of places and not others. Some of the work in urban economics on super-star cities and entrepreneurship does attempt to join the general phenomenon of agglomeration economies to the specificities of certain such agglomerations, but it hasn't become a general yardstick for the fields of NEG and RSUE (Glaeser, 2003;Kerr, 2010;Storper et al 2015;Chatterji et al, 2013).…”

Section: The Geography Of Jobs As the Principal Driver Of Divergence?mentioning

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“…A recent generation of research has elaborated micro-institutional foundations of long-term economic performance of region, such as trust, social capital, corruption, good and bad government and other aspects of social modernity (Farole et al, 2010;Crescenzi, Di Cataldo and Rodriguez-Pose, 2016). One way these institutions could shape the pattern of divergence is through selection or repulsion of the industries and activities that generate high growth in output and employment, especially during the epochal technological shifts I allude to above (Storper et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Institutionalization Of Separate Worldsmentioning

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Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

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Interregional and inter-metropolitan economic divergence is greater in many western developed countries than it has been in many decades. Divergence manifests itself in many ways, including per capita income, labor force participation, and the spatial the distribution of skills and returns to education. At the same time, geographical polarization of political preferences and electoral choices has increased, with gains in populism and nationalism in some regions, and broadening of socially liberal, pro-trade, and multicultural attitudes in other regions. The task of explaining these developments poses challenges to economic geography and regional and urban economics. These fields have already developed some of the building blocks of an account, but a number of important gaps persist. This article is devoted to identifying priorities for regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and proper economic geography to tackle the key mechanisms behind divergence as well as to integrate them in a common overall framework. JEL: R10, R21, R23, O18, J61 "Regional inequality is proving too politically dangerous to ignore"-The Economist,

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Section: The Geography Of Jobs As the Principal Driver Of Divergence?mentioning

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Section: The Institutionalization Of Separate Worldsmentioning

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Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

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“…Advising policies at local level for improving the urban governance is still very difficult (stoRPeR et al 2015). Besides the non-independent 'choice' of economic orientation, most frequently asked questions are about favouring urban sprawl or compactness.…”

Section: How To Manage Urban Geodiversity At Local Scalementioning

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Städtische Dynamik und weltweite Vielfalt: von der Theorie zur Modellbildung

Pumain¹

2019

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systems and data, and processes are now integrated into computer simulation models, which are able to reconstruct the stylised facts and trends observed. This consolidates an evolutionary theory of urban hierarchies according to which the urban geo-diversity is a necessary condition for continuing the major function of cities and towns that are altogether remarkably efficient socio-spatial adaptors in the long run of human history.

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“…(Carlsson, ). Innovation dynamics do not honor national borders, nor are innovation opportunities limited to cities (Florida, ; Jacobs, ; Storper, Kemeny, Makarem, Makarem, & Osman, ) or regions (Cooke, ). As a model of innovation systems, however, NIS combines the ideas that innovation is systemic (Lundvall, ) and that innovation systems are evolving (Lundvall, ; Nelson, ), organized institutionally, and therefore susceptible to government policies at national levels (Freeman, ).…”

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Synergy in the knowledge base of U.S. innovation systems at national, state, and regional levels: The contributions of high‐tech manufacturing and knowledge‐intensive services

Leydesdorff

Wagner

Gómez

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Using information theory, we measure innovation systemness as synergy among size‐classes, ZIP Codes, and technological classes (NACE‐codes) for 8.5 million American companies. The synergy at the national level is decomposed at the level of states, Core‐Based Statistical Areas (CBSA), and Combined Statistical Areas (CSA). We zoom in to the state of California and in more detail to Silicon Valley. Our results do not support the assumption of a national system of innovations in the U.S.A. Innovation systems appear to operate at the level of the states; the CBSA are too small, so that systemness spills across their borders. Decomposition of the sample in terms of high‐tech manufacturing (HTM), medium‐high‐tech manufacturing (MHTM), knowledge‐intensive services (KIS), and high‐tech services (HTKIS) does not change this pattern, but refines it. The East Coast—New Jersey, Boston, and New York—and California are the major players, with Texas a third one in the case of HTKIS. Chicago and industrial centers in the Midwest also contribute synergy. Within California, Los Angeles contributes synergy in the sectors of manufacturing, the San Francisco area in KIS. KIS in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area—a CSA composed of seven CBSA—spill over to other regions and even globally.

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The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

Cited by 130 publications

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Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Städtische Dynamik und weltweite Vielfalt: von der Theorie zur Modellbildung

Synergy in the knowledge base of U.S. innovation systems at national, state, and regional levels: The contributions of high‐tech manufacturing and knowledge‐intensive services

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