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Science parks have become useful instruments in transferring knowledge from universities to the industry. On other hand, some studies affirmed that technology transfer activities and results can be encouraged by geographical proximity between companies university premises people. If this is true, it would set up science park satellite sites near selected areas. A few actually done this. However...

M. D. Lumsden,1 S. E. Nagler,1 B. C. Sales,2 D. A. Tennant,3,4,5 D. F. McMorrow,6,4,7 S.-H. Lee,8,9 and S. Park10,9 1Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 3Hahn-Meitner Institution, Glienicker Strasse 100, Berlin D-14109, German...

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...