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The City Network Paradigm: Measuring Urban Network Externalities:
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In recent years, network behaviour has been analysed extensively as the emerging model for economic growth as mentioned in this paper. But it is not a metaphor for co-operative behaviour among individuals, corporate...Abstract:
In recent years, network behaviour has been analysed extensively as the emerging model for economic growth. By network behaviour, a metaphor for co-operative behaviour among individuals, corporate ...read more
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Agglomeration Economies: Ambiguities and Confusions
TL;DR: In this article, a system of classification for agglomeration economies is outlined, which differs in several respects from previous ones, both in terms of definition and coverage, and attention is then given to a number of issues surrounding the concept of aggleration economies that do not appear to have been adequately considered.
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Spatial Structure and Productivity in US Metropolitan Areas
Evert Meijers,Martijn Burger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but are shared among a collection of nearby and linkable cities, such as megaregions and polycentric urban regions.
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Polycentric Urban Regions and the Quest for Synergy: Is a Network of Cities More than the Sum of the Parts?
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the presence of synergy is carried out for the Randstad region in the Netherlands, which is often considered a classic example of a polycentric urban region, focusing on the synergy mechanisms of co-operation and in particular complementarity.
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Contrasts in agglomeration: proto-industrial, industrial and post-industrial forms compared
Nicholas A. Phelps,T. Ozawa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy of the emblematic forms of agglomeration in proto-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial urban contexts is presented, highlighting the changes in the spatial extent of urban areas, the contribution of particular industrial sectors and types of external economy and of exports.
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Innovation, entrepreneurial, knowledge, and business ecosystems: Old wine in new bottles?
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review (SLR) of ecosystems based on a selection of 104 articles and books and their archetypes is presented, where business, innovation, entrepreneurial, and knowledge ecosystems are identified and discussed.
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Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities
Michael L. Katz,Carl Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the adoption pattern of technologies in industries where network externalities are significant and find that the pattern of adoption depends on whether technologies are sponsored by an entity that has property rights to the technology and is willing to make investments to promote it.
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An economic theory of clubs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a general theory of clubs, or consumption ownership-membership arrangements, a theory that will include as a variable to be determined the extension of ownershipconsumption rights over differing numbers of persons.
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Installed base and compatibility : innovation, product preannouncements and predation
Joseph Farrell,Garth Saloner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that if an installed base exists and transition to a new standard must be gradual, early adopters bear a disproportionate share of transient incompatibility costs.
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Toward a “Critical Mass” Theory of Interactive Media Universal Access, Interdependence and Diffusion
TL;DR: A “critical mass” explanation for the diffusion of interactive media, such as telephone, paper mail systems, electronic mail, voice messaging, or computer conferencing, within communities is proposed.