Open AccessPosted Content
Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation and the Life-Cycle of Products
Gilles Duranton,Diego Puga +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, a simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes and switch to mass-production and relocate to specialised cities with lower costs.Abstract:
A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in diversified cities, trying processes borrowed from different activities. On finding their ideal process, firms switch to mass-production and relocate to specialised cities with lower costs. When in equilibrium, this configuration welfare-dominates those with only diversified or only specialised cities. We find strong evidence of this relocation pattern in establishment relocations across French employment areas 1993u1996.read more
Citations
More filters
Posted Content
Urban Growth: Trends Vs. Noise
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the so-called classical urban growth models and ramdon urban growth model is carried out to explain their explanatory capabilities about urban growth and cities size distribution, and the theoretical foundations of both kind of models and their degree of compatibility are also examined.
Posted Content
Internal and External Determinants of Radical and incremental Innovation in SMEs: the case of Catalonia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a detailed survey containing microdata for 497 SMEs located in Catalonia to understand why those innovative activities are not spread across space and are located into specific areas.
Book Chapter
The Impact of Innovation Strategy on Firm Financial Performance
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to innovation strategy has diffused into the strategic plans of the small-medium enterprises and the impact of those innovation strategies on their financial performance was investigated.
Posted Content
La reinvencion de Medellin
de Medellin.,La reinvenci´on +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, Medellin, una de las principales ciudades colombianas, experienced a profunda crisis industrial crisis hacia finales del siglo XX, caracterizada by la inestabilidad institucional.
Journal Article
Incorporating agglomeration economies in cost-benefit analysis of transport projects
Dani Shefer,Haim Aviram +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the methodology used in the estimation of the benefits derived from agglomeration economies induced by the proposed new Light Rail Transit in the Tel-Aviv Metropolitan Area.
References
More filters
Book
Principles of Economics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the general relations of demand, supply, and value in terms of land, labour, capital, and industrial organization, with an emphasis on the fertility of land.
Book
The Economy of Cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the economy of cities and the main social problems that humanity has and the greatest source of creativity, innovation and development opportunities to solve those problems, which is relevant for a number of reasons: first of all, because most of the planet's population is grouped in them.
Posted Content
Growth in Cities
Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Hedi Kallal,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a new data set on the growth of large industries in 170 U.S. cities between 1956 and 1987 and found that local competition and urban variety, but not regional specialization, encourage employment growth in industries.
Journal ArticleDOI
Innovation in cities: Science-based diversity, specialization and localized competition
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation and test whether the specialization of economic activities within a narrow concentrated set of activities is more conducive to knowledge spillovers or if diversity, by bringing together complementary activities, better promotes innovation.
Related Papers (5)
Original Innovation, Learnt Innovation and Cities: Evidence from UK SMEs:
Neil Lee,Andrés Rodríguez-Pose +1 more