Agglomeration spill-over benefits are a major driver of policy creating industrial and science parks across the world. However, agglomeration benefits can be offset by competition arising out of the spatial proximity of firms. In this paper we examine the impact of agglomeration and selection on Taiwanese firms' total factor productivity (TFP) distribution and show that agglomeration causes the...

Global high-tech manufacturers are mainly located in newly industrialized countries, raising concerns about adverse health consequences from industrial pollution for people living nearby. We investigated the ecological association between respiratory mortality and the development of Taiwan's high-tech manufacturing, taking into account industrialization and socioeconomic development, for 19 cit...

The paper investigates how top R&D; investors differ in the production impact of their inputs and in their rate of technical change. We use the EUIndustrial R&D; Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb-Douglass production function for a panel of morethan 1,000 companies, covering the period 2002-2010. The results for the pooled sample are contraste...

AS HRAE Jou rna l ash rae .o rg M a y 2 0 0 8 Michael D. Larrañaga, Ph.D., P.E., is Simplex Professor and department head of the School of Fire Protection and Safety at the Oklahoma State University, School of Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology, Stillwater, Okla. Mario G. Beruvides, Ph.D., P.E., is professor and director of the Center for Systems Solutions at Texas Tech Universit...

Does technological change amount to accumulation of general, and so transferable, human capital? To approach this question I rely on a theoretical framework in which the “technology distance” between industries reduces inter-industry transferability of workers’ skill. Empirically, I use US panel data on individual intra-industry and inter-industry mobility decisions between 1982 and 1990, a per...

We present a new semantics for Description Logic programs [1] (dlprograms) that combine reasoning about ontologies in description logics with non-monotonic rules interpreted under answer set semantics. Our semantics is equivalent to that of [1], but is more logical in style, being based on the logic QHT of quantified here-and-there that provides a foundation for ordinary logic programs under an...

Much has been learned about calculation, commodification and marketization from the social studies of markets and finance. But what of capitalization? What is distinctive about this mode of valuation and the reality it impels? What does it mean to live under the ‘asset condition’? In Capitalization: A Cultural Guide, Fabian Muniesa and his colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation ...

Much has been learned about calculation, commodification and marketization from the social studies of markets and finance. But what of capitalization? What is distinctive about this mode of valuation and the reality it impels? What does it mean to live under the ‘asset condition’? In Capitalization: A Cultural Guide, Fabian Muniesa and his colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation ...