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  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and US

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen, and Harald Fadinger
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

Companies were hyper-responsive to meeting the needs of all their sister companies. Clusters are based on informal relationships among firms. When firms are concentrated in a given area, firms can get the benefits of collaboration and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

administrative, cultural, and corporate capital of the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland of smoke, coal, and steel. Art became a source of competitiveness. Through creative cooperative efforts, which we could call cluster activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
  • 2019
  • Chapter

Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firm; Economic Geography; Agglomeration; Location Fundamentals; Agglomeration Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Economics
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  • November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

The Big 3 Roar Back

By: William W. George
The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details
Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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  • June 2015
  • Case

Silicon Fen

By: Tom Nicholas, David Chambers and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Technology Industry; England; California
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  • 2015
  • Chapter

Agglomeration and Innovation

By: Gerald Carlino and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; City; Innovation and Invention
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  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

wind power seemed of much more importance in some countries than in others, "a very odd pattern in the geographical locations of the firms," Jones says. "This sparks my imagination. In the early days of organic foods in the United States there were View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2014
  • Article

Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

By: Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung
Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Strategy; Value Creation; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Microeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

  Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"Privatization and the Role of the Governments in a Global Economy," the prime candidates for state-run operations clustered around five sectors of the European economy— transportation, telecommunications, financial services,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

Christian Abstract—This paper reviews implications of recent research on competitiveness and clusters for regions and regional policy. A new framing of competitiveness clarifies the role of regions. Its empirical findings align well with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

By: Glenn Ellison, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Labor; Industry Clusters; Transportation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 04 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

also benefited, the researchers write. Have tech clusters peaked? Even with the changes, the five biggest US metro areas since 1980 “have remained mostly prosperous and often hold leading positions in important sectors,” such as... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-052.pdf Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe By: Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv Abstract—This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino

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