Why are technological spillovers spatially bounded? A market orientated approach

Baranès, Edmond; Tropéano, Jean-Philippe

doi:10.1016/s0166-0462(02)00043-1

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“…Agglomeration economies consist of advantages for a firm due to the fact that it is located in a concentration of other firms and organizations. These economies of scale usually have a limited spatial reach because of transaction costs of overcoming geographical distance, such as transport, commuting, and communication costs (Baranes and Tropeano 2003). Even though agglomeration economies can be grouped in different ways, the contemporary literature usually distinguishes between localization economies (Marshall-Arrow-Romer externalities) and urbanization economies (Jacobs' externalities) (Van Oort 2004).…”

Section: Agglomeration Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employment from new firm formation in the Netherlands: Agglomeration economies and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Knoben¹,

Ponds

Oort

2011

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Within the recent literature on the geography of new firm formation, much attention is given to the role of regional knowledge sources based on the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship. At the same time, several other studies show the importance of agglomeration economies for new firm formation. The goal of this study is to assess the relative importance of these determinants for differences in the share of employment creation from new firms at the level of municipalities for the period of 1999-2006 in the Netherlands. It is found that the traditional drivers of new firm formation, such as economic growth and agglomeration effects, have a much stronger effect on new firm formation compared to measures of the regional knowledge base. Moreover, it is shown that when not correcting for the presence of agglomeration effects, the role of local knowledge resources is easily over-estimated, pointing to the dangers of misspecifications of models. The results imply that the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship should, at least for the Netherlands, not be exaggerated.

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Section: Agglomeration Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employment from new firm formation in the Netherlands: Agglomeration economies and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Knoben¹,

Ponds

Oort

2011

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…These economies of scale exist only over limited spatial distances because of transaction costs of overcoming geographical distance, such as transport and communication costs (Baranes and Tropeano 2003). Therefore, there is a spatial limit over which firms can benefit from these particular economies of scale which induces firms and labor to concentrate in certain regions (Gordon and Mccann 2000).…”

Section: Agglomeration Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Localized inter-organizational linkages, agglomeration effects, and the innovative performance of firms

Knoben

2008

Ann Reg Sci

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This paper focuses on the questions to what extent agglomeration effects and localized inter-organizational linkages influence different types of innovative performance of firms. Doing so adds to the relatively scarce firm-level literature regarding the role of regional environment for the innovative performance of firms by disentangling the often conflated effects of agglomeration effects and localized interorganizational linkages. Based on data from the Dutch automation services, we show that agglomeration economies and localized inter-organizational linkages have different effects on different types of innovative performance of firms. JEL Classification

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“…Spillovers are evidently "spatially bounded" (Baranes & Tropeano, 2003) and should be examined in terms of geographical location (Wallsten, 2001).…”

Section: High-tech Concentration: a General Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Venture Investments in Israel—a Regional Perspective

Schwartz

Bar‐El

2007

European Planning Studies

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This paper analyses the geographic distribution of venture investments in start-ups in Israel, using data for the period 1995-2004. The findings show that their location behaviour differs from that of high-tech activities: they show a pattern of "dispersed concentration" (as compared with a pattern of "concentrated concentration" of high-tech activity), with high levels of concentration in focal places, but at a commuting distance from the main metropolis. This is explained by the fact that venture investors also play the role of entrepreneurs and managers. The comparison between different types of venture investors shows that local venture capital funds lead to the heaviest concentration in the metropolis, in comparison with foreign venture investors. This heavy concentration of venture investments implies increasing regional gaps, with a minimal participation of peripheral regions, even those that enjoy some high-tech activity.

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Why are technological spillovers spatially bounded? A market orientated approach

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Employment from new firm formation in the Netherlands: Agglomeration economies and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Employment from new firm formation in the Netherlands: Agglomeration economies and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Localized inter-organizational linkages, agglomeration effects, and the innovative performance of firms

Venture Investments in Israel—a Regional Perspective

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