Agglomeration and Innovation

Innovation, Diffusion and Agglomeration

Innovation , agglomeration , and regional development

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local ‘milieu’, involving a cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual information exchanges of both an informal and formal nature. The general applicability of this model, an...

Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication and transportation. Globally, the proportion of the population living in cities continues to grow and...

Territorial Agglomeration as a Local Innovation Environment the Case of a Digital Media Agglomeration in Tampere, Finland

In this article the concept of territorial agglomeration is discussed and reflected from the point of view of innovation activities. From this same angle, some suggestions are also made as to how to bring some clarity to the complex issue of the relationship between companies and their local operational environment. One of the conclusions is that a territorial agglomeration can be a basis for s...

Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration of Services Industries

Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper shows that services are prominent among the most agglomerated industries, especially at the county level. Because traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource inputs, and labor pooling explain little of agglomeration in services industries, this paper takes an a...