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The origins of entrants and the geography of the German laser industry
Author(s) -
Buenstorf Guido,
Geissler Matthias
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2010.00332.x
Subject(s) - german , economies of agglomeration , humanities , economic geography , geography , economy , political science , economics , art , economic growth , archaeology
Entry into an industry often clusters in regions where the industry is already concentrated, which is suggestive of agglomeration economies. In science‐based industries research activities may exert another attracting force on entrants. Empirically these proximity effects are confounded by other influences on where entrants originate and locate. The paper begins to disentangle the effects of agglomeration, public research, and the supply of capable entrants in the German laser industry. The findings indicate that the industry's geography was primarily shaped by the local availability of potential entrants and by urbanization, but not localization economies. The impact of public research increased over time. Resumen Investigamos las localizaciones de equilibrio de un modelo de competición espacial de Cournot que incluye como casos especiales tanto modelos de ciudad circular como de ciudad lineal. Encontramos que la localización de equilibrio es discontinua con respecto al parámetro b (siendo b = 0 circular y siendo b = 1 lineal), y que para parte del rango de b aparecen equilibrios múltiples. El patrón de localización equivale exactamente al de la ciudad lineal para un amplio rango de b, mientras que equivale exactamente al de la ciudad circular solo cuando b = 0. Esto implica que la propiedad de ciudad lineal se mantiene en el caso de no medible de medida cero, lo cual no sucede para la ciudad circular.