How do peripheral and relatively isolated regions innovate? Recent research has tended to stress the importance of agglomeration economies and geographical proximity as key motors of innovation. According to this research, large core areas have significant advantages with respect to peripheral areas in innovation potential. Yet, despite these trends, some remote areas of the periphery are remar...

Abstract Agglomeration economies are credited for providing the needed catalyst economic growth and development. This paper uses approximately 14,000 firm‐level data employs several spatial analysis approaches to examine evidence of types sectoral clusters their footprints in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, a major subregional economy Gauteng metropolis, South Africa. The results four sel...

China’s urbanization process has entered a period of rapid development, and cities have become key to driving regional economic development. This paper uses data from 286 in China the 2005–2018 construct an urban growth quality index system examine influence spatial factors on convergence trend quality. It is found that there β absolute Chinese across whole country. After controlling for initia...

Abstract We exploit locally exogenous variation from the Blitz bombings to quantify effect of redevelopment frictions and identify agglomeration economies at a micro-geographic scale. Employing rich location office rental transaction data, we estimate reduced-form analyses spatial general equilibrium model. Our demonstrate that more heavily bombed areas exhibit taller buildings today, elasticit...

Policy for forming an industrial cluster, or industrial cluster policy, plays an important role in developing a region in East Asia. Industrial cluster policy is followed not only in Japan by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, but also in most countries in East Asia such as Malaysia and Singapore. Silicon Valley in the US and Bangalore in India are well-known success stories of devel...